Overview of the Collection
Smithsonian Institution Archives,
Washington, D.C.,
osiaref@si.edu
National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Department of Exhibitions and Collections Management
SI Records
Exhibition Records
1979-1983, 1988, 2008
8 cu. ft. (8 record storage boxes)
Accession 09-066
English
Prefered Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 09-066, National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), Department of Exhibitions and Collections Management, Exhibition Records
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of records which document the various aspects of exhibition development, planning, design and publicity for the exhibition, Champions of
American Sport. This was the first major art exhibit devoted to outstanding American sports personalities and to the aesthetic qualities of sport and human movement. It
consisted of over 100 photographs, portraits, and sculptures ranging in date from the 1830s to the 1980s. Materials include correspondence and memoranda; permissions; lender
files; research files; black-and-white photographs, transparencies, and negatives; color photographs, transparencies, and negatives; exhibition scripts; and brochures. Some
materials are in electronic format.
Access Restriction
Boxes 2-5 contain materials restricted indefinitely; see finding aid. Transferring office; 12/31/08 memorandum, Toda to Kelly; Contact reference staff for details.
Index Terms
This record series is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
Name
Champions of American Sport (Exhibition) (1981: Washington, D.C.)
Subject
Art museums
Portraits, American
Art, American
Museum exhibits
Sports
Professional sports
Sports -- History
Athletics
Athletes
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Manuscripts
Brochures
Compact discs
Black-and-white photographs
Black-and-white negatives
Black-and-white transparencies
Color negatives
Color photographs
Color transparencies
Electronic records
Box 1
Organizational Files
Box 1 of 8
General - 2008 Review of Exhibition Files (includes electronic records)
Box 1 of 8
General - Information, 1980-1982
Box 1 of 8
General - Correspondence, 1980-1982, 1988
Box 1 of 8
Audiovisual - General, 1981
Box 1 of 8
Audiovisual - The American Film Institute, 1980-1981
Box 1 of 8
Audiovisual - Dick Young Productions, 1980-1981
Box 1 of 8
Audiovisual - Major League Baseball Productions, 1981
Box 1 of 8
Audiovisual - NFL Films, 1981
Box 1 of 8
Audiovisual - Sherman Grinberg Film Libraries, 1981
Box 1 of 8
Audiovisual - Sportlite Films, 1980-1981
Box 1 of 8
Audiovisual - Home Box Office (HBO), 1982-1983 (3 folders)
Box 1 of 8
Catalog - Distribution, 1981
Box 1 of 8
Catalog - Returned Illustration Permission, 1980
Box 1 of 8
Catalog - Harry Abrams, 1980-1982 (2 folders)
Box 1 of 8
Champions Exhibition Script
Box 1 of 8
Philip Morris, 1980-1981
Box 1 of 8
Labels, 1981
Box 1 of 8
Publicity - General, 1981-1982
Box 1 of 8
Publicity - Carole Sorell, 1980-1982
Tour/Traveling Files
Box 1 of 8
Art Transport, 1981
Box 2
Box 2 of 8
Champions - Other museums requesting show, 1980-1981
Box 2 of 8
Champions - Shipping, 1981-1982
Box 2 of 8
Champions - Trucking/Shipping estimates for tour, 1979-1981
Box 2 of 8
Venue - American Museum of Natural Science - Traveling Exhibition, 1981-1982
Box 2 of 8
Venue - Chicago Historical Society - Traveling Exhibition, 1981-1982
Box 2 of 8
Venue (dropped) - Children's Museum, Indianapolis, 1981
Lender Files
Box 2 of 8
Lender Files (32 folders) [RESTRICTED]
Box 3
Box 3 of 8
Lender Files (59 folders) [RESTRICTED]
Box 4
Box 4 of 8
Lender Files (38 folders) [RESTRICTED]
Box 5
Box 5 of 8
Lender Files (7 folders) [RESTRICTED]
Non-Lender Image Source Files
Box 5 of 8
ACME
Box 5 of 8
AP
Box 5 of 8
Bettman
Box 5 of 8
Culver
Box 5 of 8
INP
Box 5 of 8
Keystone Press Photos
Box 5 of 8
National Archives
Box 5 of 8
Photo World
Box 5 of 8
Sports Illustrated (2 folders)
Box 5 of 8
United Press International (UPI)
Box 5 of 8
Wide World Photos
Research Files by Sport
Box 5 of 8
General research - Sports bibliography
Box 5 of 8
General research - History
Box 5 of 8
General research - Movie posters
Box 5 of 8
Auto racing - General
Box 5 of 8
Auto racing - Indianapolis Speedway poster
Box 5 of 8
Auto racing - Ralph DePalma
Box 5 of 8
Auto racing - A. J. Foyt
Box 5 of 8
Auto racing - Barney Oldfield
Box 5 of 8
Auto racing - Richard Petty
Box 5 of 8
Auto racing - Wilbur Shaw
Box 6
Box 6 of 8
Baseball - General
Box 6 of 8
Baseball - Baseball Immortals: The Photographs of Charles Martin Colon
Box 6 of 8
Baseball - Hank Aaron
Box 6 of 8
Baseball - Roberto Clemente
Box 6 of 8
Baseball - Ty Cobb
Box 6 of 8
Baseball - Joe DiMaggio
Box 6 of 8
Baseball - Lou Gehrig
Box 6 of 8
Baseball - King Kelley ("Slide Kelley Slide")
Box 6 of 8
Baseball - Bill Klem
Box 6 of 8
Baseball - Sandy Koufax
Box 6 of 8
Baseball - Kenesaw Mountain Landis (commissioner)
Box 6 of 8
Baseball - Mickey Mantle
Box 6 of 8
Baseball - Christy Mathewson
Box 6 of 8
Baseball - Willie Mays
Box 6 of 8
Baseball - Satchel Paige
Box 6 of 8
Baseball - Jackie Robinson
Box 6 of 8
Baseball - Babe Ruth
Box 6 of 8
Baseball - Casey Stengel (manager)
Box 6 of 8
Baseball - Ted Williams
Box 6 of 8
Basketball - General
Box 6 of 8
Basketball - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Box 6 of 8
Basketball - Red Auerbach (coach)
Box 6 of 8
Basketball - Wilt Chamberlain
Box 6 of 8
Basketball - Bob Cousy
Box 6 of 8
Basketball - Hank Luisetti
Box 6 of 8
Basketball - George Mikan
Box 6 of 8
Basketball - James Naismith
Box 6 of 8
Basketball - Willis Reed
Box 6 of 8
Basketball - Oscar Robertson
Box 6 of 8
Basketball - Bill Russell
Box 6 of 8
Basketball - John Wooden (college coach)
Box 6 of 8
Bicycling - Bicycle Racing
Box 6 of 8
Bicycling - Six Day Bicycle Race - William L'Engle (Whitney)
Box 6 of 8
Bicycling - Frank L. Kramer (1980's)
Box 6 of 8
Bicycling - Major Taylor
Box 6 of 8
Bicycling - A. A. Zimmerman
Box 6 of 8
Boxing - General
Box 6 of 8
Boxing - Both Members of This Club - George Bellows
Box 6 of 8
Boxing - Boxers by Duane Hanson
Box 6 of 8
Boxing - Muhammad Ali
Box 6 of 8
Boxing - Gentleman Jim Corbett
Box 6 of 8
Boxing - Jack Dempsey
Box 6 of 8
Boxing - Nat Fleisher
Box 6 of 8
Boxing - Jack Johnson
Box 6 of 8
Boxing - Joe Louis
Box 6 of 8
Boxing - Rocky Marciano
Box 6 of 8
Boxing - Tex Rickard (promoter)
Box 6 of 8
Boxing - Sugar Ray Robinson
Box 6 of 8
Boxing - John L. Sullivan (19th century)
Box 6 of 8
Football - General
Box 6 of 8
Football - College Football Hall of Fame
Box 6 of 8
Football - Sammy Baugh
Box 6 of 8
Football - Jim Brown
Box 6 of 8
Football - Walter Camp (19th century)
Box 6 of 8
Football - Red Grange
Box 6 of 8
Football - George Halas
Box 7
Box 7 of 8
Football - Vince Lombardi
Box 7 of 8
Football - Bronko Nagurski
Box 7 of 8
Football - Joe Namath
Box 7 of 8
Football - Knute Rockne
Box 7 of 8
Football - Gale Sayers
Box 7 of 8
Football - O. J. Simpson
Box 7 of 8
Football - Amos Alonso Stagg
Box 7 of 8
Football - Johnny Unitas
Box 7 of 8
Football - Pop Warner
Box 7 of 8
Golf - General
Box 7 of 8
Golf - Patty Berg
Box 7 of 8
Golf - Ben Hogan
Box 7 of 8
Golf - Bobby Jones
Box 7 of 8
Golf - Jack Nicklaus
Box 7 of 8
Golf - Francis Ouimet
Box 7 of 8
Golf - Arnold Palmer
Box 7 of 8
Hockey - General
Box 7 of 8
Hockey - Gordon Howe
Box 7 of 8
Hockey - Bobby Hull
Box 7 of 8
Hockey - Bobby Orr
Box 7 of 8
Horse Racing - General
Box 7 of 8
Horse Racing - New York Racing Association
Box 7 of 8
Horse Racing - Textile/Eclipse vs. Henry Winterthur and Saratoga Springs
Box 7 of 8
Horse Racing - Trotting
Box 7 of 8
Horse Racing - Eddie Arcaro
Box 7 of 8
Horse Racing - August Belmont (owner)
Box 7 of 8
Horse Racing - James Fitzsimmons (trainer)
Box 7 of 8
Horse Racing - Isaac Murphy (19th century)
Box 7 of 8
Horse Racing - Earl Sande
Box 7 of 8
Horse Racing - Willie Shoemaker
Box 7 of 8
Horse Racing - Hiram Woodruff
Box 7 of 8
Polo - General
Box 7 of 8
Polo - Tommy Hitchcock
Box 7 of 8
Rodeo - General
Box 7 of 8
Rodeo - Larry Mahan
Box 7 of 8
Skating - Figure Skating
Box 7 of 8
Skating - Ice Bird (Skater) by R. Tait McKenzie
Box 7 of 8
Skating - Tenley Albright
Box 7 of 8
Skating - Dick Button
Box 7 of 8
Skating - Peggy Fleming
Box 7 of 8
Skating - Jackson Haines (19th century)
Box 7 of 8
Skating - Eric Heiden
Box 7 of 8
Skating - Sonja Henie
Box 7 of 8
Swimming - General
Box 7 of 8
Swimming - Plunger (Swimmer preparing to dive) by R. Tait McKenzie
Box 7 of 8
Swimming - Gertrude Ederle
Box 7 of 8
Swimming - Duke Kahanmouku
Box 7 of 8
Swimming - Mark Spitz
Box 7 of 8
Swimming - Johnny Weismuller
Box 7 of 8
Tennis - General
Box 7 of 8
Tennis - Arthur Ashe
Box 7 of 8
Tennis - Don Budge
Box 7 of 8
Tennis - Pancho Gonzalez
Box 7 of 8
Tennis - Billie Jean King
Box 7 of 8
Tennis - Jack Kramer
Box 7 of 8
Tennis - Helen Wills Moody
Box 7 of 8
Tennis - Bill Tilden
Box 7 of 8
Track and Field - General
Box 7 of 8
Track and Field - Jesse Owens by R. Tait McKenzie
Box 7 of 8
Track and Field - Winner by R. Tait McKenzie
Box 7 of 8
Track and Field - William Jackson (19th century)
Box 7 of 8
Track and Field - Bob Mathias
Box 7 of 8
Track and Field - Jesse Owens
Box 7 of 8
Track and Field - Wilma Rudolph
Box 7 of 8
Track and Field - Jim Ryun
Box 8
Box 8 of 8
Track and Field - Jim Thorpe
Box 8 of 8
Track and Field - Edward Payson Weston (19th century)
Box 8 of 8
Track and Field - Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Box 8 of 8
Yachting - Painting of the Yacht Maria
Box 8 of 8
Yachting - Sailing
Box 8 of 8
Yachting - Emil (Bus) Mosbacher, Jr.
Box 8 of 8
Yachting - Painting of the yacht Maria
Box 8 of 8
Yachting - John Stevens (founder)
Public and Private Collections
Box 8 of 8
Letters to museums describing exhibition, 1979
Box 8 of 8
Jeremy Chisholm (Polo)
Box 8 of 8
Cincinnati Historical Society
Box 8 of 8
Citizens Savings Hall of Fame
Box 8 of 8
Halls of Fame
Box 8 of 8
Barry Halper
Box 8 of 8
Duke Hott
Box 8 of 8
Harris Lewine
Box 8 of 8
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sports Artists
Box 8 of 8
General
Box 8 of 8
Sports subjects in works of art list, University of Bridgeport
Box 8 of 8
Carl Beetz
Box 8 of 8
Joe Brown
Box 8 of 8
John Steuart Curry
Box 8 of 8
Joseph Golinkin
Box 8 of 8
Robert Handville
Box 8 of 8
Duane Hanson
Box 8 of 8
Peter Helck
Box 8 of 8
Ron Kleeman
Box 8 of 8
Neil Leifer
Box 8 of 8
David Levine
Box 8 of 8
Harris Lewine
Box 8 of 8
R. Tait McKenzie
Box 8 of 8
LeRoy Neiman
Box 8 of 8
Marjorie Phillips
Box 8 of 8
Robert Riggs
Box 8 of 8
Norman Rockwell
Box 8 of 8
Mary Jo Schwalbach
Box 8 of 8
Kendall Shaw
Box 8 of 8
Clemente Spampinato
People and Sports Dropped from the Exhibition
Box 8 of 8
Dropped or refused loan requests
Box 8 of 8
People dropped from show
Box 8 of 8
Hobey Baker
Box 8 of 8
Red Barber
Box 8 of 8
Billiards
Box 8 of 8
Bowling
Box 8 of 8
Bill Bradley
Box 8 of 8
Avery Brundage (organizer)
Box 8 of 8
Don Carter
Box 8 of 8
Maureen Connolly
Box 8 of 8
Jimmy Connors
Box 8 of 8
Howard Cosell
Box 8 of 8
Buster Crabbe
Box 8 of 8
Crew
Box 8 of 8
Chris Evert
Box 8 of 8
Frank Gotch
Box 8 of 8
Bob Hayes
Box 8 of 8
Willie Hoppe
Box 8 of 8
Rafer Johnson
Box 8 of 8
Ed Lewis (The Strangler)
Box 8 of 8
Patty McCormick
Box 8 of 8
Johnny "Blood" McNally
Box 8 of 8
Tom Molyneaux
Box 8 of 8
Archie Moore
Box 8 of 8
Grantland Rice
Box 8 of 8
Glen Roberts (stock car)
Box 8 of 8
Pete Rose/ Reggie Jackson
Box 8 of 8
Gene Tunney
Box 8 of 8
Honus Wagner
Box 8 of 8
Wrestling
Box 8 of 8
Writers, announcers, photographers, and artists
Folders Dropped from Sports
Box 8 of 8
Cynthia Bronson Altman
Box 8 of 8
Cleveland Museum of Art
Box 8 of 8
Musee du Sport
Box 8 of 8
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
Box 8 of 8
Museum of the City of New York
Box 8 of 8
National Maritime Museum
Box 8 of 8
Neue Gallery
Box 8 of 8
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Box 8 of 8
Rhoda Sherbell
Box 8 of 8
Sports Collectors Store
Box 8 of 8
Tennis Hall of Fame
Box 8 of 8
University of Chicago
Box 8 of 8
Columbus Museum of Art
Box 8 of 8
World Golf Hall of Fame