In this composition, Carl Newman fractures the tennis match into angled planes and compressed space, filtering sport through a Cubist vocabulary of intersecting lines and muted yet charged color, with rackets, limbs, and torsos interlocking like constructed parts. Send to the game that is yet to fully materialize, as a promise that with the next sunny day, you will be in full form, ready to play.

Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum