The world of bush-league baseball is evoked by this painting in which the unknown site could be located in any number of small towns throughout America.
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
The world of bush-league baseball is evoked by this painting in which the unknown site could be located in any number of small towns throughout America.
See more artworks depicting America's pastimes in our traveling exhibition Scenes of American Life: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, currently on view at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Source: George Gurney. Sports in Art (exhibition text, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1997).
Pictured: Morris Kantor, (1896 Russia–1974 USA), Baseball at Night,1934, oil, 37 x 47 1/4 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Morris Kantor.