2021 December Memorabilia Auction - Closing Date 12/12/21
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/12/2021
Original Hand-Painted Acrylic on Canvas Painting by Betty Jameson - World Golf Hall of Fame Collection
While LPGA Co-founder and World Golf Hall of Famer Betty Jameson owned "the soundest swing, the best pivot, and the greatest follow-through of the hips of any woman player except Joyce Wethered," according to US Open champion Lawson Little, this lot demonstrates her paintbrush didn't follow too far behind in skill level. Presented here from The World Golf Hall of Fame Collection is this an impressionistic portrait of green, yellow and orange fruit in a dish with a stem and a base, next to an orange and lemon on the table beside. On the bottom edge of the canvas this artwork is signed by Jameson. This painting was sourced from the World Golf Hall of Fame and once displayed as part of their Betty Jameson exhibition, demonstrating the well-rounded golfer's hobbies, passions, and talents off of the course.
A member of the "Big Four" of women's golf alongside Babe Zaharias, Patty Berg, and Louise Suggs, Betty Jameson broke the 72-hole tournament total of 300 strokes for the first time of any women golfer when she fired 295 to win the 1947 US Women's Open at Starmount Forest Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina. This would be only the second US Women's Open played. A signed letter of provenance from the World Golf Hall of Fame accompanies this lot.
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