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An American Pulse:
The Artist as Spectator

The Tournament
The Tournament, 1920
Edition of 63
Mason 72; Bellows 103
Museum purchase, 1997:25
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The annual Tennis Tournament at the Newport Casino. Tilden and Johnson were outstanding players. No attempt at portraiture was made, the interest being rather in the setting and the spirit of the event.
-Emma Story Bellows, 1927