The stories sport art tells - dog sledding.
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Sport art is story telling art - and every piece of art in the National Art Museum of Sport has a story to tell. Each week we will feature one in this space. For past ones, click
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One of the great stories in the National Art Museum of Sport is "Happy Trails" by Alaskan artist Jon Van Zyle.
It was commissioned by the late Alden Todd, a New
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Englander transplanted to Anchorage in his retirement years. He knew of the sport art museum from his friend Germain Glidden.On a visit to NAMOS from Alaska, he told us we needed a painting of Alaska's favorite sport - dog sledding. He set about raising funds for a commission.
The artist they chose was known for his animal paintings and was an experienced musher himself. The musher portrayed in the painting is Martin Buser, who raises dogs as well as races. Those in the painting are some of his favorites, and they are named on the back of the painting.
A Swiss, Buser went to Alaska as a 21-year-old intending to spend a year learning dog-sledding. Instead he has made his life there. In March of 2002 when he won his fourth Iditarod, he was sworn in as a U.S. citizen on the finish line. Click for artists page.
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Hours and Location
One of the nation's largest collection of sport related art hangs in the lobbies and corridors of University Place on the campus of Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis. Over 40 sports are represented in the over 900 paintings, sculptures and works on paper.
The Museum is open to the general public free of charge from 8 am to 5 pm weekdays. NAMOS will be open from 8 am to 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, March 20 and 21, 2010. Call 317.274.3627 or email Ann Rein for group tours.
We are located at 850 West Michigan Street in Indianapolis, IN 46202. Entrance is one block north at 875 West North Street.
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News of our artists
James Fiorentino of Flemington, N.J., is one of five United States sports artists to be showcased at the 2020 World Cup Soccer June 11 to July 11 in South Africa. To see his work and other artists from around the world, go to www.2010fineart.com. Among James' watercolors in the National Art Museum of Sport are portraits of Michael Phelps, Jeff Gordon and Peyton Manning. Click for artists page.
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Sporting scenes - hunting and fishing - by the late Ogden Pleissner will be featured in an exhibit from May 17 to October 24, 20l0, at the Shelburne Museum near Burlington, VT. NAMOS has a series of Pleissner's watercolors of hunting in Scotland given to NAMOS by the widow of one of Pleissner's hunting companions, the late C.S.Allyn, chairman of NCR. Click for artist page.
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A 24-inch mahogany sculpture of Roberto Clemente by Benjamin Blackburn is traveling to 20 cities as part of the Smithsonian's exhibit, "Beyond Baseball: The Life of Roberto Clemente." The Pittsburgh Pirates right fielder was killed at 38 in a plane crash flying relief supplies to victims of an earthquake in Nicaragua. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of fame posthumously. Blackburn's mahogany sculpture of Oscar Robertson is in the National Art Museum of Sport's Basketball Gallery. Click for artist page.
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George Eastman, the man who gave us do-it-yourself photography, has been immortalized in bronze by Marc Mellon, a Connecticut sculptor whose small bronze of a gymnast is in the NAMOS collection. The 8-foot statue was unveiled last fall at the University of Rochester in New York.
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Why Sport Art?
"Sport art helps us understand our relation to sport, and the sport of life..."
James Morris, Mark Miles
James Isch, Philip Harris,
Jennifer Staikos elected
to NAMOS Board
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James T. Morris, Mark D. Miles, and James L. Isch, all of Indianapolis; Philip Harris, Chicago, and Jennifer Staikos, Zurich, Switzerland, have been elected to the NAMOS Board of Governors.
In other Board action, NAMOS elected Shaun Healy Clifford as its chairman; John D. Short, president; Kim Pendergast, vice-chairman; and Roger W. Schmenner, secretary. Robert V. Welch Jr. continues as treasurer. All are from Indianapolis except Pendergast of Rowayton, Conn.More News
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The International Sports Heritage Association has awarded the National Art Museum of Sport a first place for its web site in the ISHA 2009 Communications Awards.
- NAMOS cards, sport art books and prints now available in Artisans, University Place's new boutique and coffee bar.
- Peyton Manning limited edition giclees available.
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Exhibition
“Landmarks in 50 Years of Sport Art” celebrates
NAMOS founding.
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