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Sports, Games & The Circus Portrayed in Art

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Art of The Print: Sports, Games and the Circus, Portrayed in Art Index: This page contains a listing of original works of art created by international artists, with a focus on art depicting various types of games and sporting events and circus entertainment throughout the centuries. Our Gallery, Art of the Print / www.artoftheprint.com offers a wide selection of international fine art. We sell original paintings, watercolors, drawings, monotypes, engravings, etchings, lithographs and other mediums of original graphic art. These works of art date from the Renaissance period to the contemporary art period. We guarantee the authenticity of every work of art 100%. Full documentation and certification is provided.

Activities associated with sports, games, the circus, carnivals, celebrations, have always played a major role for artists and collectors alike. A few of the painters, illustrators, watercolour artists and or original printmakers from the sixteenth century to the late twentieth century dealing with these subjects must be mentioned here.

Sports & Games: This category contains a selection of original art concentrating upon depictions associated with sporting activities such as baseball, polo, golf, football, fishing, boxing, gambling, card games, chess and various other types of games or sporting events. Adults and children have always taken great pleasure in these types of recreational pursuits and they in turn, have played a traditional role in our lives during the past, present and surely our future generations. Case in point are some of the works of art listed in this collection. In 1795 Caroline Watson created an engraving for John Boydell's 'Shakespeare' series where she portrays Ferdinand and Miranda playing chess. During the mid 1840's, the French satirical artist, Cham 'Charles-Henri-Amedee', created a series of lithographs under the general title of 'Actualies'. The pastimes of the middle and upper classes, such as horse racing and hunting, were a primary focus. Next, The motion and movement of the sport of polo intrigued Sybilla Mittell Weber throughout the 1930's; as a result, she created a series of beautiful drypoint engravings that captured the grace and beauty of the sport to perfection. In 1974, Marcia Marcus was commissioned to create one of the greatest original lithographic posters for the upcoming Olympic games. And let's not leave out one of America's favourite sports 'Baseball', in the 19th century, Stimson's Sudsena Washing Powder produced a trade card depicting a young boy at bat and almost a century later, still carrying out this tradition is Seymour Leichman's with his lithograph depicting the game in action. Sports & Games Portrayed in Art Index

The Circus, Fairs, Carnivals & other Celebrations: This category contains a selection of original art concentrating upon depictions dealing with the circus, as well as, other festivities, such as, fairs, carnivals and political, military or religious celebrations. George Kenneth Hartwell, Leon Marie Constant Dansaert, Raymond Creekmore and Georges Schreiber contributed original paintings, watercolors, lithographs, and etchings dealing with the worlds of the circus and carnivals. Their renditions of circus imagery depicting clowns, animal trainers, acrobats, jugglers and other forms of circus entertainment are highly regarded and included in museums, corporate and private collections. Another example is 'The Montreal Winter Carnival'. It became a hugely successful event. The Montreal Star and competing publishers thus hired Canada's greatest artists to commemorate the activities. One need only mention that three of the major artists covering the Carnival at the time were Henri Julien, William Raphael and Robert Harris. Their original lithographs in this field stand as an important historical and artistic document of nineteenth century Canada. The Circus Portrayed in Art Index

We provide search links to different Categories ranging from old master engravings and original fine art to speciality collecting such as animals, botanicals, genre, maps, military art, posters and advertising, satirical art, sports and many other interests. You can also link to pages focused on the century you prefer or by the artists' nationalities.

The Sports, Games and The Circus artist indexes are set up by category and in alphabetical order by the artist's last name. We believe it contains most of the speciality art included in this website with links to a full description of each item and images when available. If you can't find what you are looking for here, please browse the image gallery or you can go to the animal, military, satirical or other pages set up for your convenience. You just might find something we have not included here.

Art of the Print / www.artoftheprint.com sells international fine art. Our collection consists of original paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints, such as etchings, line engravings, lithographs, aquatints, mezzotints, woodcuts, wood engravings, silk-screens, monoprints, monotypes and other mediums of original art. All of these works of art have been created by prominent and established artists, (painters, illustrators, and printmakers). Their nationalities vary from American to British, Canadian, Czechoslovakian, Dutch, Flemish, French, German, Italian, Mexican, Austrian, Belgium, Israeli, Danish, and Japanese, as well as artists from other countries. The collected works span from the early Renaissance period to the modern and contemporary art period. You can find categories ranging from original fine art to speciality collecting such as animal art, botanical art, genre, portraits, maps, military art, lithographic posters and advertising art, satirical art, sports art and many other areas of interest.

The artist biographies, research and or information pertaining to all the original works of art posted on our pages has been written and designed by Greg & Connie Peters exclusively for our site, (www.artoftheprint.com). Please visit us regularly to view the latest artworks offered for sale. We will soon be posting an update of our most recent research and include the biographical and historical information pertaining to our next collection of original works of art created by artists throughout the centuries. We hope you found the information you were looking for and that it has been beneficial.