Golfers

Golf offered Kim Whitesides a subject rich in gesture, light, and the drama of open space. His golfer paintings reflect the same sharp eye he developed over decades working across editorial illustration and fine art, where economy of line and confidence of composition became second nature. Robert Redford, a longtime collector and admirer, described Whitesides as an artist whose subjects sit “just either side of the middle, even when they are mainstream.” The golfer series exemplifies that quality precisely: familiar in subject, but elevated by a purely original point of view and the support, as Redford put it, of a fine skill.