‘The Art of Sport’ ends at IUPUI May 31

• LeRoy Neiman talks about his use of color, including painting Muhammad Ali and Reggie Jackson as “noisy guys.”

• Ray Ellis is shown as he paints Ty Cobb sliding into second base. The completed painting is in the exhibit.

• Fay Moore is famous for her equine art:“It’s more difficult than human anatomy as you don’t have the personal knowledge of it.”

• Don Moss considers the sport art he did for 30 years for Sports Illustrated to be reportorial: he experienced the events he was to paint.

• Rhoda Sherbell describes in the video what appealed to her, and what she portrayed, in her sculpture of Casey Stengel in the museum’s collection.

• Germain G. Glidden, the late founder of the National Art Museum of Sport, receives a tribute by former President George H.W. Bush.

• James Fiorentino is among the “next generation” of sports artists; he launched a professional career by the time he graduated from college two years ago.

• Dan Edwards is a Hoosier whose sculptures of Negro Baseball League players are in the museum’s collection.

Sports writer and commentator Frank Deford, long a supporter of the National Art Museum of Sport, narrates the video which is shown in the Museum’s Glidden Memorial Library.

The introduction by former President Bush was taped at his summer home at Kennebunkport, Maine, also the setting for the painting of Bush done in 1997 by museum founder Germain Glidden.

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