An Athletics Compendium

L 364 - 37 Painting & Sculpture Vainting & Sculpture 364 How to draw athletes in action / ArtZhauirdenberg. London: Abelard-Schuman, 1966. 64p; illus BL: aX.421/919 Some ady\ce is offered on appropriate drawing materials. Several examples, made principally with pen and Indian ink,of athletes running, high jumping, long jumping, hurdling, pole vaulting, javelin throwing, shot putting, hammer throwing and discus throwing are presented. 365 Faster, higher, stronger: an exhibition about the Olympic dream / texbty Robert Mclean, Sean Wilkinson and Ian O'Riordan. Edinburgh: City of Edinburgh, Dept. of Recreation, 1997. 15p; illus ISBN: 0-905072-81-2 Catalogue foanr exhibition held at Cthiety Art Centre, Edinburgh in1997. ^ Additional Keferences 366 Modern athletics and Greek art: notes on the Borghese gladiator andthe Apobates relief otfhe Acropolis / W. M. Ramsay. Oxford: Horace Hart, 1885. 16p; pbk 367 Studies in Greek athletiacrt / K. T. Frost. Oxford University, 1907. BLit thesis. 368 Illustrations from the XlVth Olympiad SportAritn Exhibition, London, 1948; held at the Victoria and Albert Museum. LondoTn:he Museum, 1952. 48p; illus; pbk BL: 7812.ee.20 The criteria which the works ubmitted had to meet were: by livingartists; producesidnce 1January 1944; related to sport or games; previously approved by th Olympic Committee of the nation under which the artist claims citizenship. Includes 15 half-tone illustrations relating to athletics. 369 Sporting life: an anthology of Britsipshorting prints / Paul Goldman. London: British Museum Publications, 1983. 126p; illus; index; pbk Bibliography:p120-121 ISBN: 0-7141-0793-X BL: L.49/2053 Exhibition catalogue. The chapter on 'Athletics and gymnastics' detaailsnumber ofearly prints, including portraits Cofaptain Barclay andGeorge Wilson,and works by Rowlandson, Collet, Greengrass and Paterson. 370 British challenge at the 1984 Olympics: paintings by Kevin Whitney / with a text bByrian Glanville. London: Muller, 1984. 119p; illus ISBN: 0-584-11103-7 ^ Also listed at: C209 371 Harry Holland: the painter & rea/lityEdward Lucie- Smith. London: Art Books Internatio1n9a9l,1. 136p; illus; index ISBN: 0-946708-22-3 BL: LB.3Lb.6443 An E5AA 44C'yds winner in 1955, Wright Henry Holland (bom 1941) became a prominent figurative painter. One of his works on an athletics theme, Fosbury Flop' (197(5), is reproduced in this outstanding biography. 372 A dictionary of sporting artists 1650-1990 / Mary Ann Wingfield. Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 1992. 354p; illus Bibliography: p338-340 ISBN: 1-85149-140-6 BL: YK.1993.b.415 The index of artists by sports includes entries for athletics, Olympic sports and walking/pedestrianism. 373 The book ofBritish sporting heroes / compiled by James Huntington-Whiteley; introduction by Richard Holt. London: National Portrait Gallery, 1998. 239p; illus; pbk ISBN: 1-85514-249-X BL: YK.1998.b.9274 Published to accompany the exhibition 'British Sporting Heroes'at the National Portrait Gallery from 16 October 1998' to 24 January 1999. Features portraits anpdhoto-portraits, wbirtihef biographies, of: Harold Abrahams, Sir Roger Bannister, Captain Barclay, LillianBoard, LordBurghley, Linford Christie, Sebastian Coe, Lynn Davies, C. B. Fry, W. G. George, Tanni Grey, Sally Gunnell, Chris Hallam, DaHviedmery, Albert Hill,Eric Liddell, DouglasLowe, Steve Ovett, Ann Packer, Mary Peters, Gordon Pirie, Foster Powell, Mary Pand, Tessa Sanderson, Daley Thompson, Don Thompson, Allan Wells. Fatima Whitbread, George Wilson, and Sydney Wooderson. ^ Also listed at: B256 [ 186 ]