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Issued by W.S. Kimball & Co. John L. Sullivan, Champion Heavy Weight Pugilist of the World, from the Champions of Games and Sports series (N184, Type 1) (detail), 1887. Commercial color lithograph, sheet: 2 11/16 x 1 1/2 in. (6.8 x 3.8 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick (63.350.216.184.7)
Exhibition
On the Ropes: Vintage Boxing Cards from the Jefferson R. Burdick Collection
2 Jul 2018 – 21 Oct 2018
Regular hours
- Monday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 21:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 21:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 17:00
Address
- 1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street)
- New York
New York - NY 10028
- United States
Boxing, a combat sport with ancient origins, was wildly popular in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
About
This exhibition will feature vintage boxing cards from the Jefferson R. Burdick Collection of printed ephemera that date from the 1880s to the 1950s, exploring the ways in which images of boxing foreground issues of nationality, race, ethnicity, celebrity, and notions of masculinity in the United States during the period.
Works in other media to be included in the exhibition, such as John Hoppner's painting Richard Humphreys, the Boxer, attest to the ubiquity of boxing imagery in the visual culture of eighteenth-century England. The later emergence of the sport as a source of both entertainment and inquiry across the globe will be reflected in diverse works by Richmond Barthé, George Bellows, Lola Cueto, Eadweard Muybridge, and August Sander.