One month, one painting : sport in March and celebrating diversity

Can you name all the sports activities represented by the artist ?

Source : https://americanart.si.edu/education/oh-freedom/joseph-rugolo
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The answer!

Joseph Rugolo’s vibrant Mural of Sports depicts four different sports: baseball, hockey, track, and tennis. Despite all this activity, Rugolo composed a coherent scene by using simplified geometric forms and colors and by creating a fairly symmetrical design.(…)

Rugolo painted Mural of Sports for the gymnasium at New York City’s Roosevelt High School. The painting was meant to inspire students by showing America’s greatest athletes. Rugolo identified the tennis player as Helen Wills Moody, who won nineteen Grand Slam singles titles during her career, including her eighth Wimbledon championship in 1938, the year he completed his mural.
The artist also identified the runner, the star of the painting, as Jesse Owens.

In 1936, just before Rugolo painted Mural of Sports, Owens won four gold medals at the Summer Olympic Games in Berlin.
Owens’s victory was celebrated around the world, and by many Americans in particular, because it challenged the propaganda taking hold in Nazi Germany(…).
Even while many Americans celebrated Owens’s victory, African American athletes were not treated equally in the United States.
The most popular sports remained segregated; that is, separate teams and facilities were maintained for black and white players.
Owens, like many African American athletes at the time, was championed as an American hero when competing internationally yet was treated as a second-class citizen at home. In making Owens the focal point of this mural, Rugolo might have been making a subtle commentary on U.S. ambivalence toward African American athletes.

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