James Daugherty

Futurist Picture of the Opening Game
1914

Vintage illustration titled "Futurist Picture of the Opening Game" by J. Daugherty, depicting an abstract, dynamic scene of a baseball game with fragmented and overlapping shapes in bold colors, representing the motion and energy of the players and the ball. The image includes text at the top and bottom, with the bottom text providing a translation of the scene's intent to capture the various sensations of the onlooker, and is dated 1914 from the New York Herald.

Vintage illustration titled "Futurist Picture of the Opening Game" by J. Daugherty, depicting an abstract, dynamic scene of a baseball game with fragmented and overlapping shapes in bold colors, representing the motion and energy of the players and the ball. The image includes text at the top and bottom, with the bottom text providing a translation of the scene's intent to capture the various sensations of the onlooker, and is dated 1914 from the New York Herald.

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Date
1914

Classification
Prints

Medium
Offset lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 10 1/2 × 12 1/4in. (26.7 × 31.1 cm) Image: 8 5/16 × 12in. (21.1 × 30.5 cm)

Accession number
77.41

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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James Daugherty
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