I loved the George Clooney film, The Boys in the Boat. It tells the compelling, real life story of a group of poor college boys who form a rag-tag crew team who succeed in beating their rival, The University of California. These underdogs then go-on to best the elite East Coast Ivy Leagues at the Poughkeepsie Regatta, followed by all the international teams at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics. The film is an aesthetic feast—and it conveys the beauty (not to mention the blood, sweat and tears) of this most challenging of sports.
Shown above, a William Nicholson sporting print depicting a rowing team on the water—which is being trained by their coach (astride a horse, along the river bank). It was one of a dozen prints Nicholson made for An Almanac of Twelve Sports, published in 1898. Nicholson made the original works as a woodblock print, but then he reproduced them lithographically—in keeping with the modern, efficient technology. Verse, accompanying each month's sporting scene, was written by Rudyard Kipling. Click on the photo above to learn more about this handsome print. Stroke!
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