Title - The Golf Course, North Berwick

Artist - Sir John Lavery

Between 1919 and 1924, Lavery produced an important group of golfing pictures at Westerdunes, North Berwick, the home of Sir Patrick and Lady Ford, his principal Scottish patrons. Ford's country residence faced the ninth hole of the North Berwick course.

Some fifteen pictures have been identified in the golf series, although there are related landscapes, beach and garden scenes painted nearby at Tyninghame and at Ardilea, the home of Lavery's painter colleague, Patrick William Adam. In addition Lavery painted scenes of the miniature Japanese garden which Ford installed at Westerdunes. Of the golf pictures, there are depictions of The Putting Course, North Berwick, The Ladies Links, North Berwick and The First Green, North Berwick, as well as general views of the course.