Object Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Janet Evans in Practice |
Artist |
KLUETMEIER, Heinz |
Date |
1998 |
Object Name |
Photograph |
Culture |
American |
Medium |
Chromogenic color print |
Dimensions |
H-24.125 W-22 inches |
Description |
This work is drawn from a collection of 161 photographs that were acquired by the Springfield Museums following their inclusion in the exhibition Game Face: What Does a Female Athlete Look Like? which toured nationally from 2001 through 2006. Depicting everyday athletes and elite competitors, these images offer an expansive and empowering answer to the question posed in the Game Face exhibition title. Swimmer Janet Evans won four gold medals and one silver medal in two Olympics, in 1988 in Seoul and in 1992 in Barcelona. Growing up, she idolized Nadia Comenici, a Romanian gymnast who won one team gold and three individual gold medals, including the all-around, at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. "Personally, I never felt a gender bias, but I know that's the result of the work done for equality in the 1970s. I was definitely a by-product of Title IX. My mother can't swim and here she is with a daughter who aspired to be an Olympic swimmer. "I was terrible at gymnastics, but originally, before swimming, I wanted to be like Nadia and have that gold medal and be so ecstatic. I had a baseball trading card of Nadia and I carried it around in my pocket and I'd pull it out and look at it and say, 'I want to be like Nadia.'" - Janet Evans Photo taken in Mission Viejo, CA, 1998. |
Credit line |
The MassMutual Game Face Collection |
Accession # |
2009.Ph.04.063 |
Object ID |
DMFA-2009.Ph.04.063 |
Collection |
Michele and Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts |
Search Terms |
Athletes Game Face Productions Mission Viejo (Calif.) Sports Swimmers Swimming Swimming pool |
People |
Evans, Janet |