Posters, Covers, Cartoons
The American Game
Golf arrives in America and is immediately made fun of.
The game crosses the Atlantic and lands in the illustrated press: art-nouveau magazine posters, Collier’s covers, and the great satirical weeklies treating the new craze exactly as it deserved. Frost’s alphabet, Penfield’s flat colour, and Puck’s golfers missing everything that matters.
1895–1911 · United States
Outing, September Number
The American art-nouveau poster that sold golf to a magazine audience.
The Golfer’s Alphabet
A. B. Frost sets the whole game to twenty-six letters, 1898.
Collier’s — “Fore!”
Penfield’s 1908 cover: flat colour, one word, the whole game.
On the Presidential Golf Links
Puck, 1895: American politics played as a foursome, badly.