Athletes and Sports

This photograph depicts a wide, tilted view of a crowded football stadium during a game.  Scattered across the field are running and jumping players.
Garry Winogrand
Austin, Texas
gelatin silver print on paper
9 1/16 in x 13 7/16 in (23.02 cm x 34.13 cm)
Gift of Stanley T. Lesser, A.B. 1951, J.D. 1953
Wilfred Byron Shaw
The Michigan Stadium
print on paper
10 1/16 in. x 12 5/16 in. ( 25.5 cm x 31.3 cm )
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Paul M. Lepley
In an interior space, a large group of men stand with their right arms out and their left elbows bent with their hands on their hips. They are all facing a man whose back is to the viewer. He is also holding his right arm out.
George Wesley Bellows
Business-Men's Class
lithograph on wove paper
15 3/4 in x 21 in (40 cm x 53.3 cm);22 in x 28 1/16 in (55.9 cm x 71.3 cm)
Museum Purchase
This costume design shows a dancer leaning back to the right with a golf club in the right hand. The dancer wears a white top with short sleeves and yellow culottes with brown and black trim at the waist and along the side of the left leg.
Georg Kirsta
Costume for 'Le Train Bleu' by Milhaud: 5. Joueur de Golf
gouache heightened with gold on paper
12 1/8 in x 8 7/8 in (30.8 cm x 22.5 cm)
Museum Purchase
This costume design shows a lithe young woman in a short-sleeved blue and white striped top and a high-waisted, white, short skirt with blue hem and black criss-cross lacing moving vertically up from the hem, almost to the waist. She also wears a white cap or visor.
Georg Kirsta
Costume for 'Le Train Bleu' by Milhaud: 4. Championne de Tennis. Yvonne Georgi.
gouache heightened with gold on paper
12 1/8 in x 8 7/8 in (30.8 cm x 22.5 cm)
Museum Purchase
Eight male figures (three kneeling in front and five standing in back) wearing orange tank tops and white shorts face the viewer; two basketballs and five trophies between figures in the foreground. Figures stand in front of a background of fragmented, arched and circular areas of color in blues and golds.
Jacob Lawrence
Champions
tempera over black colored pencil on wood board
19 13/16 in x 24 in (50.32 cm x 60.96 cm);18 1/8 in x 9 3/8 in (46.04 cm x 23.81 cm)
Gift of Dr. James and Vivian Curtis
A team of men in green jerseys and pink shorts competing against a team in blue jerseys at a game of basketball. A player on the green team is in mid-air and appears to be nearing the rim of the hoop with the basketball.
Joseph Vogel
Basketball
lithograph on paper
17 ⅝ in x 12 4/5 in (44.77 cm x 32.54 cm)
Allocated by the U.S. Government Commissioned through the New Deal art projects
Rick Chapman
Shaquille O'Neal, West Hollywood, California, from "The ESPY Collection"
gelatin silver print on paper
14 in x 10 15/16 in (35.5 cm x 27.8 cm);22 1/8 in x 18 1/8 in (56.2 cm x 46.04 cm);10 3/16 in x 10 3/16 in (25.8 cm x 25.8 cm)
Gift of the artist
Rick Chapman
Lance Armstrong, Austin, Texas, from "The ESPY Collection"
gelatin silver print on paper
14 in x 10 15/16 in (35.5 cm x 27.8 cm);22 1/8 in x 18 1/8 in (56.2 cm x 46.04 cm);10 3/16 in x 10 3/16 in (25.8 cm x 25.8 cm)
Gift of the artist
Rick Chapman
Mark Messier, Rye, New York, from "The ESPY Collection"
gelatin silver print on paper
14 in x 10 15/16 in (35.5 cm x 27.8 cm);22 1/8 in x 18 1/8 in (56.2 cm x 46.04 cm);10 3/16 in x 10 3/16 in (25.8 cm x 25.8 cm)
Gift of the artist
Rick Chapman
Sammy Sosa, Chicago, Illinois, from "The ESPY Collection"
gelatin silver print on paper
14 in x 10 15/16 in (35.5 cm x 27.8 cm)
Gift of the artist
Rick Chapman
Brett Favre, Green Bay, Wisconsin, from "The ESPY Collection"
gelatin silver print on paper
14 in x 10 15/16 in (35.5 cm x 27.8 cm);22 1/8 in x 18 1/8 in (56.2 cm x 46.04 cm);10 3/16 in x 10 3/16 in (25.8 cm x 25.8 cm)
Gift of the artist

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Part of 10 Learning Collections

119 Collection Object Sources

Austin, Texas (1981/2.65.12)
Champions (1997/1.530)
Basketball (1943.139)
Fallen Boxer (1948/2.9)
Valerie Bettis (1991/2.48)
Boxer (2000/2.313)
Fallen Boxer (2000/2.314)
Standing Boxer (1948/2.10)
Two Boxers I (1948/2.11)
Hercules (1956/1.78)
My Brothers (1985/1.125.5)
Sumo Bath House (2000/2.214)
Folk archer (1976/2.72)
Les Cyclistes (1953/2.7)
Schnelligkeit (1948/1.333)
Dos Ciclistas (2011/1.94)
Wiffleball Player (2013/2.356)
Young Gymnast (2013/2.166)
Muscle Beach (1976/2.17)
Greek Athletes (1949/1.125)
Heartland (1985/2.94)
Counted Out (2013/2.249)
Between Rounds (2013/2.246)
Dempsey and Firpo (2013/2.252)
Le Croquet (2014/2.223)
Stadium (1984/2.58.5)
Muhammad Ali (2014/2.154)
Fight (2004/2.82)
Slap Shot (2004/2.83)
Face Off (2004/2.84)
Score (2004/2.85)
Stunt Man III (1964/1.88)
Force (2014/2.115)
Untitled (2014/2.181)
Tennis (2013/2.272)
The Pool Player (2013/2.265)
European Classic (1991/2.105)
Umpire (2004/1.344)
Fem Verde (2004/2.94)
Fem Rouge (2004/2.93)

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