Black History Month

Press Releases tagged with Black History Month

E-Glove, 2007, Oil on canvas, 16 x 22 inches

Kinetic Splendor: The Negro Leagues and Beyond

Released: February 27, 2012

The Museum of Art and Origins is celebrating Black History Month and MLB Spring Training with the Art of Lou Grant Lou Grant's oil paintings and wood engravings of on-field action and idealized portraits of historic Negro Leagues baseball players are a remembrance of the spirit of another time. Grant is master of the tension between the ambient stillness in a ball park and the explosive kinetic effort that instantly follows. This is beautifully framed in the arrested motion of the athletes he portrays. This combined sense of stillness and motion will remind the art connoisseur of the a...