Scrimmage: Football in American Art from the Civil War to the Present

August 28-December 18

The University Art Museum at Colorado State University presents Scrimmage: Football in American Art from the Civil War to the Present, the first comprehensive survey of original works by prominent American artists examining the quintessentially American sport of football, a sport with its origins in the 19th century Ivy League colleges of the eastern seaboard. Following the CSU venue, the exhibition will travel to the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon. Through the enthusiastic response of institutions and private collectors throughout the country, the exhibition brings works from major museums and private collections by important artists from the 19th through the 21st century including Winslow Homer, Frederic Remington, George Bellows, John Steuart Curry, Thomas Hart Benton, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and a host of others.