EVENTS

12th Jul 2010 to 19th Jul 2010

An exhibition of drawings and paintings of St Andrews, golf and golfers by Harold Riley from the 1940’s up to the present day.

This exhibition is in association with Alfred Dunill and will run during the week of the Open Championship in St Andrews, 12-19 July 2010.

“I travelled to Scotland from Manchester in my uncle’s delivery truck and spent some hours
on the Old Course during the Open.

My interest in golf was over shadowed by my love of railways, and I finished up making twenty
drawings of which 17 were of the railway sheds and three of Sam Sneed who was passing by,
these drawings are now in the collection being shown at the Fraser Gallery.

The exhibition is a private and personal record of me attending every subsequent Open until 2010.
It is a miscellaneous group of studies all on paper recording whatever I saw around me.
The collection includes a number of illustrated letters to my only brother who is a keen golfer
but has lived outside the British Isles for more than 40 years.

The Alfred Dunhill Company have been the single most generous supporter of golf at St. Andrews.
since the first of the Dunhill Cups I have been at the The Dunhill Tournaments.
The Links Tournament which combines the amateur and professional golfers is a happy events for
all who follow golf in Britain. I am grateful to Dunhill for the privilege of allowing me to record
their tournaments for the Dunhill Collection.

I am also grateful to the Fraser Gallery for giving the opportunity to show this collection in their gallery.”

Harold Riley, 2010