Art Collections of the National Sporting Library

The permanent art collection at the National Sporting Library & Museum consists of over two hundred works of art including objects by such renowned sporting artists as Paul Brown, John Emms, Herbert Haseltine, Sir Alfred Munnings, Edward Troye and Franklin B. Voss as well as many others spanning from the late 17th century to the present. The collection, first formed with important donations and bequests from the George L. Ohrstrom Family, has been expanded over the years through kind gifts from other benefactors of the NSL, including Paul Mellon, Harry T. Peters, John H. Daniels, and Felicia Warburg Rogan. Paintings, sculpture, prints and object d'art are displayed throughout the Library.

Louis Maurer (German/American, 1832-1932)
Proctor Knott (The First Futurity, 1888, Jerome Park, Sheepshead Bay, a Close Finish)
oil on canvas
13 x 19 inches
Gift of the Margaret Kendrick Blodgett Foundation

Recent Donations to the Collection

Felicia Warburg Rogan, of Charlottesville, Virginia, generously gifted fifteen paintings including the Library's first canvases by Sir Alfred Munnings, as well as an important work by John Emms, Foxhounds and a Terrier in a Stable Interior. For more images and information about the Rogan Collection, please click here.

In December 2008, the Library received an important 17th-century Old Master painting by Abraham van Calraet, Portrait of a Horse in a Landscape, from Mrs. Henry H. Weldon of New York City.

In July 2009 the children of Peter Winants graciously donated Alligator by Franklin Brooke Voss. It was the important painting illustrated on the dust jacket of Winants' book, The Sporting Art of Franklin B. Voss, published in 2005.

Also donated in July 2009 wsa the oil Carriage Horse with Docked Tail, 1854, by Henri Delattre, from the family of Mr. Henry "Duffy" Rathbun.

Rights and reproductions/Fine art donations:

Please contact Hannah Reuter, hreuter@nsl.org, Curatorial Assistant, at 540-687-6542 x 14 for additional information.

Fine art appraisals :

Due to IRS regulations, the National Sporting Library & Museum does not offer appraisals of any kind. Visit the website Appraisers.org for a list of certified art dealers and appraisers.

Herbert Haseltine The Thoroughbred Horse

Herbert Haseltine (American, 1877-1962)
The Thoroughbred Horse (The Perfect Thoroughbred)
1949
Bronze
13 x 14 ¾ x 5 ¼ inches
Herbert Haseltine 1949 II (on base)

Elida Langley by Voss

Franklin Brooke Voss (American, (1880-1953)
Portrait of Elida B. Langley, Riding Sidesaddle on Sandown
1921
Oil on canvas
28 x 36 inches
Signed FB Voss 1921
Gift of Eleanor Langley Fletcher

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