Product Description

Jack Nicklaus’s spirit of sport: "To love a game-to play it-is the greatest joy of childhood. Only later do we learn it is one of the greatest joys of life."
The concept of fun and competition as a training ground for achievement has always been important for Jack Nicklaus, and it is those qualities that this painting reflects. Yet, underlying those values is the deep sense of commitment that Jack Nicklaus brings to golf and his personal life. The glowing greens and golds of summer sunset highlighting happy children at plat present a perfect symbol of the aliveness and exuberance of Jack Nicklaus. The joie de vire reflects and important aspect of the spirit of Special Olympics.
Each example is a sixteen color lithograph on papier d’Arches, pencil signed by the artist and the athlete.
The edition is limited to three hundred numbered impressions and fifty numbered artist proofs.
Thirty impressions with Roman numerals are reserved for the artist and publisher.
The edition was pulled at Atelier Ettinger in New York during nineteen hundred and eight three.
Each example carries the embossed seal of Atelier Ettiner.