With the X-Games in Los Angeles this past weekend, a visit to the Los Angeles County Art Museum goes to show you just how far we've come since bicycling, wrestling and boxing were considered socially accepted sports. On view from July 25 to October 17, 2010, the first exhibition, dedicated to Thoms Eakins, celebrates the museum's acquisition of Eakins's last great sporting painting, Wrestlers (1899), one of the single most important American paintings acquired in the history of LACMA. The sports theme, provides a rare opportunity to consider the history of sporting images in the oeuvre of this icon of nineteenth-century American art. Not since 1927 have these paintings been on view in LA! http://www.lacma.org/
Monday, August 9, 2010
Manly Pursuits: The Sporting Images of Thomas Eakins
With the X-Games in Los Angeles this past weekend, a visit to the Los Angeles County Art Museum goes to show you just how far we've come since bicycling, wrestling and boxing were considered socially accepted sports. On view from July 25 to October 17, 2010, the first exhibition, dedicated to Thoms Eakins, celebrates the museum's acquisition of Eakins's last great sporting painting, Wrestlers (1899), one of the single most important American paintings acquired in the history of LACMA. The sports theme, provides a rare opportunity to consider the history of sporting images in the oeuvre of this icon of nineteenth-century American art. Not since 1927 have these paintings been on view in LA! http://www.lacma.org/
