Object Details
- Luce Center Label
- Louis Linck created this maquette, or model, for Polo Players while working for the Federal Art Project in Chicago. His sculptures of sporting events never focused on individuals, but instead employed groups of figures in jumbled, energetic compositions. In Polo Players, two men wearing helmets and wielding mallets scramble forward over their horse to get the ball. They could be soldiers in a battle scene, climbing out of a trench with weapons in hand.
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- Louis Linck, born Paris, France 1895-died Chicago, IL 1962
- Date
- ca. 1935-1940
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Louis Cheskin
- Medium
- plaster
- Dimensions
- 5 1/2 x 5 5/8 x 3 7/8 in. (14.0 x 14.4 x 10.0 cm)
- Type
- Sculpture
