Art of Tennis
TenniSite Museum
What is art anyway?
We think - "almost everything in the museum, but some more than others"
Museum links:
Museum Home About Equipment Ad in Funnee Kid's Page Art History
art – tennis paintings, sculpture, textiles, photography, etc ----- In the Zone:
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Figurative abstract tennis painting - tough half-volley. (click for a larger picture, in a new browser window or tab) ----- This life-like action statue stands over a foot tall and it made of metal - bronze or copper apparently.
(Mirror shows the obverse view. ) ----- Tennis ceramic mug with pastel abstract racquets and balls.
----- Rodo Padilla's ceramic works - a tennis boy and girl.
Common print of a Victorian tennis gathering -
Perhaps the lady in the center is despondent because she's lost her tennis racquet? ----- Modern composite material sculpture of a fun-loving group of doubles players - one of our favorites because it seems to illustrate the pure joy of tennis.
You can see this one a few other places around the TennSite domains. ----- Racquet and ball painting on canvas.
----- Leroy Neiman action print.
----- The early look, with vintage racquet in hand - this tennis rendition from the House of Lloyd.
A ceramic composite tennis sculpture, about a foot tall. ----- Abstract tennis player painting, on canvas.
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----- Victorian Ladies Tennis
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A 1987 clay/ceramic tennis player ----- | art - noun 2. the class of objects subject to aesthetic criteria; works of art collectively, as paintings, sculptures, or drawings: a museum of art; an art collection. From Dictionary.com -----
3 'steel' racquets holding one 'granite' ball.
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Game action painting on canvas.
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Embroidered pillow of a Victorian tennis scene....
----- This is an early 20th century artwork advertisement for the apparel of the day.
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Modern poster abstract of Venus and Serena Williams
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"Love All" calendar picture - 1945.
Note also the racquet style - fully painted surface with leather grip, common by this time. ----- Another calendar print, this one from 1948 - not only the racquet, note the dress is above knee length by this time. It took decades to rise so far.
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"Ladies Match" card, art by Beryl Cook
1991
----- Tennis Lady Pin - Flapper?
----- Bronze or copper willowy tennis figure about a 1 foot tall.
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Print of a victorian art piece associated with Horsman brand tennis equipment.
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A print of tennis in 1881. |
