Artist William Steene, Bobby Jones - Golf Triple Crown Masters British Open

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Artist William Steene, Golfer Bobby Jones - 1971 Print Golf Triple Crown, Masters British Open - US Open LTD
"THE CONCENTRATION OF CHAMPIONSHIP"
Framed & Matted
Measures 19" x 15"  (print 9 3/4" x 13")
Robert Tyre Jones Jr.
(March 17, 1902 – December 18, 1971) was an American amateur golfer who was one of the most influential figures in the history of the sport; he was also a lawyer by profession. Jones founded and helped design the Augusta National Golf Club,  and co-founded the Masters Tournament . The innovations that he introduced at the Masters have been copied by virtually every professional golf tournament in the world.
Jones was the most successful amateur golfer ever to compete at a national and international level. During his peak from 1923 to 1930, he dominated top-level amateur competition, and competed very successfully against the world's best professional golfers. Jones often beat stars such as Walter Hagen and Gene Sarazan, the era's top pros. Jones earned his living mainly as a lawyer, and competed in golf only as an amateur, primarily on a part-time basis, and chose to retire from competition at age 28, though he earned significant money from golf after that, as an instructor and equipment designer.
*William Robert Steene (1887-1965) was born at Syracuse, New York on August 18, 1887.  He was a nationally known portrait painter and muralist.
Steene studied under Colarossi and Julian in Paris, after his initial art education at the Art Students’ League and National Academy of Design in New York
City.
Among his portraitures possibly familiar to local residents are: President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi;
Governor Henry Whitfield of Mississippi; Dr. Karl Meyer, head of Cook County Hospital at Chicago;
E.V Richards, president of the Navy League of America and Paramount Richards Theatres;
and golfing legend, Robert Trent “Bobby” Jones.
(Who’s Who in America, Vol. 31, 1960-1961 and Bradford-O’Keefe Burial Book 48, p. 245)