Why Contemporary Painters Are Obsessed with Tennis
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When Eric Ravilious was selected to represent English culture at the 1937 Paris International Exhibition, he designed a vast mural based on his earlier triptych, Tennis (1930), in which men and women in immaculate whites dart across a red-clay court bordered by a brilliant green lawn. Since modern tennis emerged in mid-19th-century England and spread abroad, artists have been drawn to its clean geometry, kinetic rhythms, and associations with leisure. Edward Hopper captured the game’s elegant ch
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