Saturday Golf Outing

Any one for a game of golf?

Artist Paul Cadmus conceived this painting as part of a preliminary version of murals commissioned for the post office in Port Washington, New York. He had to abandon the project, however, when the postmaster of the affluent Long Island suburb objected to his satirical depiction of residents and their cranky children.

This painting and the two others from this mural series by Cadmus are currently on view at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut in our traveling exhibition Scenes of American Life: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Source: Virginia Mecklenburg. Scenes from American Life: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (exhibition text, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1999).

Pictured: Paul Cadmus, (1904–1999), Aspects of Suburban Life: Golf,1936, oil and tempera on fiberboard, 31 3/4 x 50 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of State.