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Master of Golf Course Landscapes:
The Oil Paintings of
Hudson Shaoxia Zhang

A landmark 480-page volume presenting more than three decades of Hudson Zhang's extraordinary golf landscape paintings.

Produced with large-format imagery, museum-quality printing, and exceptional materials and craftsmanship, the book is designed as both a work of scholarship and a collectible object.

Featuring essays by Richard Vine, Barbara Stehle, and Xintian Tina Wang.

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Master of Golf Course Landscapes book cover
Zhang's bicultural technique might be dubbed Literati Impressionism. For his practice clearly echoes literati values, offering a deep poetic response to intuited spiritual essences, while also embracing Western painterly traditions--above all the optics of light, color, and atmospheric effects.
Richard Vine
Open book showing a Hudson Zhang golf landscape painting
The course for me represents eternity, while the golfers who create miracles upon it are fleeting.
Hudson Shaoxia Zhang
He paints from memory, from the feel of the course underfoot, from the rhythm of a day's changing light.
Xintian Tina Wang
Open book spread with Hudson Zhang golf landscape painting
Zhang's final approach is one that embraces dream and reality, East and West.
Barbara Stehle
The paintings are less about golf as a game than about the states of mind it can evoke--focus, solitude, patience, surrender.
Xintian Tina Wang
Close view of the Master of Golf Course Landscapes book
Golf is a game of the self... It's about standing alone with nature.
Hudson Shaoxia Zhang
The golf landscape becomes not only a site of sport but also a mythic realm.
Barbara Stehle
Open book spread with multiple Hudson Zhang paintings
The fairway unrolls like a silk scroll; the tree line flickers with brushwork that could just as easily be ink on paper.
Xintian Tina Wang
Zhang's paintings present golf courses as psychic preserves... suggesting refuge, hovering before us like dreams.
Richard Vine
Open book spread with essay and painting plates
In an age of speed and spectacle, he invites us to slow down. To return to looking.
Xintian Tina Wang
His profound recreation, his restoration of body and soul, lies not in winning or losing, but in being there.
Richard Vine

Richard Vine is the former managing editor of Art in America and author of hundreds of critical articles, interviews, and reviews. His eight books include New China, New Art (2008) and Odd Nerdrum: Paintings, Sketches, and Drawings (2001), as well as the artworld crime novel SoHo Sins (2016). He has taught and lectured around the world, and curated exhibitions in Beijing, New Delhi, Hangzhou, and New York.

Barbara Stehle is an art historian and independent curator. After receiving her PhD from the Sorbonne, she worked at such institutions as the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Zurich Kunsthaus. She currently teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design and is the founder of the cultural programming service Art Intelligentsia.

Xintian Tina Wang is a New York City-based journalist and art critic whose work has appeared in ARTnews, Observer, Time, ELLE, Brooklyn Rail, etc. She also serves as president of the New York chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association.