Spinner Play

Benton Murdoch Spruance (1904-1967)
Spinner Play
Lithograph, 1934-1935
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift/purchase from the Alfred Bendiner
Foundation and Mrs. Alfred
Bendiner, 1982-1992 (217A.1)

The speed and motion of football are evoked in this lithograph by American artist Benton Spruance. His football subject prints brought him acclaim early in his career, and Spinner Play is a prime example of his ability to combine fluid Modernist forms with a Regionalist's eye toward daily life in America. It also owes something to the influence of artist George Bellows, whom the artist admired, and to Mexican muralists such as Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco.