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April Issue 2003
Belton Center for the Arts in Belton, SC, Features Works by Wayland Moore
The Belton Center for the Arts, located
on the square in Historic Downtown Belton, SC, will present Wayland
Moore: Augusta National on Canvas, an exhibition featuring
twenty original paintings of the Augusta National, home of the
Masters, by Belton native, Wayland Moore. The exhibition will
open Apr. 5 and will run through May 24, 2003. This is the first
time these commissioned paintings have been on display as a collection.
Moore was born in Belton, SC. During his high school years he
played football, basketball, and track in addition to taking art
from a local art teacher, Miss Ruth Payne. In college, he majored
in art at the Ringling School of Art & Design in Sarasota,
FL.
After graduation, Moore spent many years in television, did advertising
agency work, and was a Pulitzer Prize Nominee for his newspaper
editorial cartoons. He was the Graphics Director for the Atlanta
Braves and designed the uniform that Hank Aaron was wearing when
he hit his 715th home run breaking Babe Ruth's record. This uniform
hangs in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Moore has covered several major sporting events with art commissions including the Winter & Summer Olympic Games, the America's Cup, US Open, PGA, the Masters, the Super Bowl and the World Series. Many of these commissions were published into limited edition prints. His publishing firm has offices in New York and Paris which often afforded him the opportunity to spend his summers painting in Paris.
Moore has chosen the Belton Center for the Arts to host the first ever showing of all 18 holes and the clubhouse of the Augusta National. In recalling his growing up years in Belton when there were very few opportunities to experience or study the arts, he is very excited about the resources the Belton Center for the Arts is bringing to the greater Belton community.
This exhibition is a fundraiser for the Belton Center for the Arts. A limited number of signed and numbered prints of Hole #10 Camellia, a commemorative poster, one original of Hole #10 (which is not part of the complete collection), and other golf related artists proofs will be for sale.
"If you want to get the
real feel of Augusta National there is no better venue than Wayland
Moore's golf paintings. I should know. I've been seeing and reacquainting
myself with these scenes for 53 years," says Furman Bisher,
sports writer.
Moore works in acrylics and watercolors. His work is purchased
by collectors and dealers and hangs in private and corporate collections.
His studio has been the hot dry brush of Africa, Alaska's landscape,
and many countries in Europe. In the United States his subjects
have been the Kentucky Derby, Indy 500, space shuttle lift-off,
Concord's first flight to the US, all three Triple Crown Winners
and the inductees into the US Olympic and SC Tennis Hall of Fames.
He has been featured in one-man shows at the Headley Museum, Lexington,
KY; Muihead Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA; Hermitage Gallery, LaBaule,
France; Nahan Galleris, New Orleans, LA; Studio 53, New York,
NY; Austin Galleries , Chicago, IL & Detroit, MI; Southwest
Galleries, Dallas, TX; Gallery Felicie, New York, NY; and Knight
Gallery, Long Beach, CA.
For more information check
our SC Institutional Gallery listings or call the center at 864/338-8556.
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