Scrimmage Football in American Art from the Civil War to the Present
Scrimmage: Football in American Art from the Civil War to the Present investigates the history of football imagery by prominent American artists and photographers beginning with Winslow Homer’s engravings for Harper’s Weekly at the close of the Civil War and culminating with the work of contemporary artists such as Catherine Opie and Shaun Leonardo. The artworks, which represent a variety of media including prints, paintings, sculpture, photographs and video, attest to the fact that football has played a significant role in American cultural history for the last 150 years. Scrimmage is the first scholarly exhibition to survey football imagery in depth and to demonstrate that a multitude of artists have made important images of this quintessentially American sport.
An illustrated catalogue published by the JSMA with interpretive essays by curators Frickman and Knapp, and contributing writers Albert Bimper, Robert Gudmestad, and Michael Oriard, as well as a selected illustrated checklist with artist biographies written by three recent M.A. Art History graduates (Lindsay M. Keast ’14, Stephanie Dunn ’15, and Christie Hajela ’15), will accompany the exhibition. Scrimmage is co-organized the Colorado State University Art Museum, Fort Collins, CO; co-curated by Linny Frickman, Director, Colorado State Universty Art Museum, and Danielle Knapp, McCosh Associate Curator, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
Scrimmage: Football in American Art from the Civil War to the Present is supported by RBC Wealth Management; the Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Endowment; the Oregon Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; the University of Oregon Office of Advancement; Harold and Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation; Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation; FUNd Endowment at Colorado State University; the Lilla B. Morgan Memorial Fund; City of Fort Collins Fort Fund and Cultural Resources Board; and JSMA members.
Scrimmage Reading List
Football and photography/art
Guttmann, Allen. Sports and American Art from Benjamin West to Andy Warhol. Amherst, Mass.: U of Massachusetts, 2011. Call number: N8250.G88 2011**
Little, David Eugene. The Sports Show: Athletics as Image and Spectacle. Minneapolis, Minn.: Univ of Minnesota, 2012. Call number: TR821 .S73 2012*
Wombell, Paul., Allsport, and Hulton/Archive. Sportscape: The Evolution of Sports Photography. London: Phaidon, 2000. Call number: TR821 .W66 2000*
History of football
Lewis, Michael. The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006. Call number: GV939.O44 L49 2006*
MacCambridge, Michael. America's Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation. New York: Random House, 2004. Call number: GV954 .M32 2004*
Oriard, Michael. Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina, 1993. Call number: GV950 .O75 1993*
Walsh, Christy, Whittle, Glenn, and Intercollegiate Football, Inc. Intercollegiate Football: A Complete Pictorial and Statistical Review from 1869 to 1934. New York, N.Y.: Published by Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1934 . Call number: GV951.A1 I6*
Social & cultural aspects of the sport
Laskas, Jeanne Marie. Concussion. New York: Random House, 2015. Call number: RC394.C7 L37 2015***
Oates, Thomas Patrick, and Furness, Zack. The NFL: Critical and Cultural Perspectives. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple UP, 2014. Call number: GV955.5.N35 N45 2014***
Osborne, Anne C. Female Fans of the NFL: Taking Their Place in the Stands. New York: Routledge, 2016. Call number: GV951 .O73 2016***
University of Oregon Football
Leadership and Legacy: Athletic and the University of Oregon. Online exhibition of selected topics and events in U of O sports history.
UO Libraries Special Collections and University Archives: UO Athletics digital collection
McCann, Michael C. Oregon Ducks Football : 100 Years of Glory, 1894-1995 : An Illustrated History of University of Oregon Football. Eugene, Or.: McCann Communications, 1995. Call number: GV958.U553 O74 1995*
*Located in Knight Library
**Located in AAA Library, Lawrence Hall
***Located in John E. Jaqua Law Library, William W. Knight Law Center