new print release: "Sir Walter"

Here is my new limited edition print in the "greatest golfers" gallery on my golf art site... of American Walter Hagen ("The Haig") the flamboyant star who had 44 wins throughout his career from 1914 through the mid-1930's, which included 11 majors championship victories... third in total majors behind Jack Nicklaus with 18, and Tiger Woods currently with 14 and counting. Walter Hagen was the supreme match-play player, and often arrived for a match against his opponent by pulling up to the first tee in a chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce at the last minute. My favorite quote about Hagen: "...He could relax sitting on a hot stove." (-Tommy Armour, The American Golfer 1935).

I created this striking print by overlapping my gouache painting of Hagen with vertical strips from a grainy newspaper photo of the golfer from about 1919... The result is a contemporary image which imbues a sense of the the colorful showmanship Hagen brought to the game that elevated the public perception of a professional golfer to that of a celebrity, but also suggests the time period in which he played the game.

This new golf art print by artist Steven Anthony Salerno is available in a limited edition at sasgolf.com