Harold "Red" Muller, California's Great Passer, Flipped a Ball Sixty-0nine Yards to a Team-Mate across Ohio's Goal Line
Date1929
Artist
Herbert Morton Stoops
(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)
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
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
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
