Touchdown, Yale vs. Princeton, Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 27, 1890, Yale 32, Princeton 0

Artist: Frederic Remington (American, 1861–1909, B.F.A. (Hon.) 1900)

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

22 × 32 9/16 in. (55.9 × 82.7 cm)

Credit Line

Whitney Collections of Sporting Art, given in memory of Harry Payne Whitney, B.A. 1894, and Payne Whitney, B.A. 1898, by Francis P. Garvan, B.A. 1897, M.A. (Hon.) 1922 June 2, 1932

Accession Number

1932.264

Culture
Period

19th century

Classification
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Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Bibliography
  • Jill Hartz et al., Scrimmage Football in American Art from the Civil War to the Present, exh. cat. (Eugene, Ore.: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, 2015), n.p., ill.
  • Allen Guttmann, Sports and American Art from Benjamin West to Andy Warhol (Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts, 2011), 116, fig. 21
Object copyright
Additional information

Object/Work type

figures (representations), histories (visual works), human figures (visual works)

Subject

Yale University

Signed

Signed lower right "FREDERIC REMINGTON-"

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