Bronx, New York, 2009
This installation includes over 50 pieces of photography in the Delta Club. The challenging installation on the custom leather wall allowed little margin for error. Sports & The Arts works with your vendors, from interior designers to the construction team—and everyone in between—ensuring each artwork is installed efficiently and with consideration for the surrounding area.
Installed in the entrance to the New York Yankees executive offices, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig epitomize Yankee Tradition.
The exclusive Legends Club was themed with and installation of large canvas photographs that included the players whose numbers were retired by the team—legends in the Legends Club. In rich black and white, sepia, and a Yankee-blue duotone, these impressive photographs are a perfect complement to the environment both visually and thematically.
New York Yankees Commission Sports & The Arts to install 1,300 Photographs of Yankees History.
Living Museum brings walls of Yankee Stadium to life under the direction of Sports and The Arts.
Sports & The Arts is pleased to announce its curation of the photography and art installation within Yankee Stadium. Featuring over 1,300 past and present archival photographs from the New York Daily News and other sources, “The Glory of The Yankees” photo collection brings the walls of Yankee Stadium to life and creates a museum attraction for both young and old.
Fans will be treated to the largest collection of Yankees photographs ever displayed. Celebrating the illustrious history of the New York Yankees, photographs dating back as early as the 1900’s have been meticulously restored to showcase both the legends of “yesteryear” and the stars of today.
To create a distinct destination within the Legends Club, Sports & The Arts installed a wall graphic of another Yankee legend — the original Yankee Stadium on opening day, 1923. Theming locations is a hallmark of the Sports & The Arts process, bringing together history and artistic executions.
The suite interiors were adorned with classic photography and newspaper cover reproductions. Sports & The Arts collaborates with local resources such as libraries, newspapers, private collectors, hall of fames and other image galleries to gather a wide array of ephemera used in each collection.
This beautiful canvas of Mickey Mantle towers 8’ high in the Legends Club. Our scanning and retouching capabilities help to create image files that scale sharp and crisp even at extended dimensions.
“When we envisioned this thrilling photographic exhibit, we insisted upon a level of quality and dedication that reflects the Yankees history and tradition. There was no one who had the requisite skill sets and could accomplish our goals other than Sports & The Arts” says Lonn Trost, Chief Operating Officer of the Yankees.
Sports & The Arts has created an intimate museum gallery feel within the Yankees Stadium. Visitors will have the opportunity to view their favorite players from Yankees history, as well as experience an up-close look at rarely seen images. Photographs on display depict both iconic players and moments from the legacy that defines America’s pre-eminent baseball franchise.
The location of artwork and photography is curated with an eye toward creative storytelling, taking a thematic approach in all of our collections. In this suite corridor photo at Yankee Stadium, we show the photography being themed according to the suite numbering with images of players who wore that number. Shown here, by suite 4, is the great Iron Horse—and clean up hitter—Lou Gehrig. Where player numbers were not available, we developed vignettes around key numbers, such as “61”, showcasing the Mantle/Maris home run race of 1961.
A tribute to three perfect games in Yankees history, the first by Don Larsen in 1956 World Series, David Wells in 1998, and David Cone in 1999.
A gorgeous sepia-toned installation is located near the main entrance to the Yankees suite corridor. During our research, it was discovered that the Yankees were the first team to consistently wear numbers on the back of their uniform which represented their order in the lineup—Babe Ruth, the home run hitter was 3 and clean-up man Lou Gehrig was 4. Working with many sources we were able to find suitable photographs for the each of the ten players who first wore numbers for the Yankees. Sports & The Arts worked with the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown and the New York Daily News, the United States Library of Congress and other sources, scanning through nearly 100,000 slides, negatives and printed photos to create the photos used in the Yankees Collection.
Sports & The Arts spent several months researching the archives of the New York Daily News selecting images dating back to the 1920’s. Sports & The Arts envisioned several themes for the photographs including a series of the “Original Ten”—the first ten Yankee players to wear numbers on their backs. Other photo vignettes included a tribute to the perfect games thrown by Yankee pitchers and the home run race of 1961 between Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle.
The project entailed selecting, restoring, printing, framing, curating and overseeing the installation of these historical photographs. Sports & The Arts collaborated with the New York Daily News, Major League Baseball, and the National Baseball Hall of Fame in compiling the images. Additional contributors included the Library of Congress in Washington, DC and Getty Images. Over 70,000 images were culled from sources including glass negatives, film negatives, photographs and newsprint in our successful effort to procure the most poignant and befitting images for the Collection. Incorporating several printing techniques and bring in interesting printing surfaces such as metal, canvas, plexiglass and metallic and other specialty papers, Sports & The Arts was able to showcase these photographs with more texture and visual features.
A view through the retractable doors of the party suite corridor. Each party suite contained photography and wall treatments themed by era.
