"The Golfer" Lot no. 973
By William Oberhardt 1882-1958
1930's (Estimated)
30.00" x 24.00"
Oil on Canvas
Signed Lower Left
SOLD
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Early in his career, William Oberhardt found his greatest interest in delineating the human head. Over the years, he developed a remarkable facility for presenting the special qualities revealed by the sitter’s character. An important factor in this ability came from his own warm personality which relaxed and charmed his subjects.
“Obie” would never draw from photographs, but always insisted on working directly from the model, earning added respect from his fellow-artists for his incisive likenesses.
His sitters comprised a veritable Who’s Who. He said that most of them were people he would have paid willingly for the privilege of portraying. Among these famous subjects were Presidents Taft, Harding, and Hoover; Thomas Edison, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Luther Burbank, Ezio Pinza, Cardinal Spellman, Bernard Baruch, and Walter Lippmann. Oberhardt was chosen as the portraitist for Time magazine’s first cover, on March 3, 1923.
During World War II, Oberhardt contributed by drawing a great number of portrait sketches of men from various armed services at numerous centers and hospitals.