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Commitment To Excellence In Art And Sport 2011 Exhibit NAMOS

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Commitment To Excellence In Art And Sport 2011 Exhibit NAMOS

Tamir Barkan Painting Chosen for National Art Museum of Sport Exhibit 2011
INDIANAPOLIS

The Dream Team, a watercolor painting by Tamir Barkan, an artist in Southern California, has been selected by a jury for inclusion in the Commitment to Excellence in Art and Sport exhibit at the National Art Museum of Sport at University Place on the campus of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

The exhibit, which includes 50 sport paintings, sculptures and photographs will run until April 20, 2011. They were selected in a global competition for sports artists conducted by the Museum. There were entries from over twenty-six states and six countries with more than fifty-seven sports or sports related subjects represented.

The 1992 USA Olympic Mens Basketball Team, known as the Dream Team, is considered one of the greatest basketball teams assembled in modern history. Members of the Dream Team include Christian Laettner, David Robinson, Scottie Pippen, Patrick Ewing, Karl Malone, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Charles Barkley, John Stockton, Clyde Drexler and Chris Mullen. Chuck Daly was the head chief coach.

Tamir Barkan is a self-taught artist who typically draws images of sports or family. Barkan has created similar compilations of athletes, Yankees Legends and The Greatest Athletes of All Times.

Founded in 1959 in New York City by the late Germain G. Glidden, a portrait artist and national squash champion, the National Art Museum of Sport holds one of the nations largest collections of art depicting sport. Over 40 sports are represented in the over 900 paintings, sculptures and works on paper in the collection. Among the artists in the collection are Ogden Pliessner, Winslow Homer, George Bellows, Joe Brown, Ray Ellis, James Fiorentino and Alfred Boucher.
The Museums first home was in Madison Square Garden in New York. It has been in Indianapolis, Amateur Sport Capital of the World, since 1990.

The Commitment to Excellence in Art and Sport fine art competition and exhibit support the Museums two-pronged mission to encourage sports artists in their efforts to create sport art and to collect, preserve and share the best examples of sports art it can acquire.
The National Art Museum of Sport at 850 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202, is open free to the public from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. week days. For group tours and weekend hours, call 317.274.3627 or e-mail ecvarner@iupui.edu; more information at www.namos.iupui.edu.