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Seasons fade, beautiful landscapes lose their color and the light dies, but paintings live. Time has its’ ways as paintings their own. Paintings have the ability to pleasurably alter one’s sense of reality. They can heighten reality, separate reality by exciting your imagination and extend reality by evoking a memory. The paintings are art for every day.
The Golf Club #18 The Lakes G & CC #18 Columbus CC #13 Webhannet GC #17 Cape Arundel GC #11 New Albany GC #3W Click images above for more information on Sam's Golf watercolors . If you play the game you have no doubt experienced, if only for a moment, stunning views of courses touched with dramatic light. Ingwersen’s paintings capture these moments for future enjoyment. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ RESEARCH INDEX NOTES RESEARCH NOTES (in pdf format 18 MB) Watercolo
You will enjoy Sam’s 145 watercolors of gorgeous golf course landscapes. They are not only a delight, but they illustrate the authors’ argument of how contrived landscape effects in pursuit of memorable looks have become a “dangerous beauty” and a danger to the game. A movement to improve visual looks started in the late Victorian Era and has now gone too far. Ten million US players have recently quit playing and the industry is baffled.