Get out the chips and soda! It's time to watch the Superbowl!

Like many of his contemporaries, Carl Holty was dedicated to abstraction and structural geometries. A careful look at this swirl of shapes suggests a football player holding a ball. Here, the artist expands his usual palette of primary colors to include decorative pinks and oranges.

Source: Jacquelyn Days Serwer. Modernism & Abstraction: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (exhibition text, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1999).

Pictured: Carl Holty (1900–1973), Gridiron,1943–44, oil, 48 x 36 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Patricia and Phillip Frost.