The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 20, 2025

Basketball Team

1928

Kors

(20th century)
America
gelatin silver print
Image: 27.3 x 23.5 cm (10 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.); Paper: 35.5 x 28.1 cm (14 x 11 1/16 in.)
Gift of William and Margaret Lipscomb 2021.213
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

Photo montage—composite photographic images—originated in the mid-1850s.

Description

A photomontage is a composite image made by joining together and printing portions of more than one negative to synthesize an image not found in reality. Dada and Surrealist artists in Europe were employing photomontage in the 1910s and 1920s as an art medium, but a more likely influence on this American image of sport is a tradition of trick photography employed in humorous commercial postcards.
  • ?-2021
    William S. and Margaret Lipscomb, Shaker Heights, OH, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
    December 6, 2021
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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