Harold "Red" Muller, California's Great Passer, Flipped a Ball Sixty-Nine Yards to a Team-Mate across Ohio's Goal Line

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Harold "Red" Muller, California's Great Passer, Flipped a Ball Sixty-Nine Yards to a Team-Mate across Ohio's Goal Line
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Harold "Red" Muller, California's Great Passer, Flipped a Ball Sixty-Nine Yards to a Team-Mate across Ohio's Goal Line

Date1929
Artist (American painter, 1888–1948)
Illustration Citation"Hero Stuff," by John W. Heisman, in Collier's Weekly, November 2, 1929
MediumInk, gouache, and graphite on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 9 1/16 × 13 5/8 in. (23 × 34.6 cm)
sheet: 10 7/8 × 15 7/8 in. (27.6 × 40.3 cm)
Credit LineF. V. du Pont Acquisition Fund, 1986
Object number1986-52
On View
On view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextAfter his childhood in Utah and Idaho, Henry Morton Stoops studied art at Utah State College and then became an artist for San Francisco and Chicago newspapers. He specialized in action pictures, especially western, military, and sports scenes. The Society of Illustrators elected Stoops to its Hall of Fame in 2009. His deft use of diagonals and overlapping figures conveys the dyamic intensity of the players

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