Douglas Duer 1887-1964 Oil Painting, Sports Boxing, New York 1920s, Coney Island

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A rare and expertly executed oil painting by known illustrator Douglas Duer. 

This painting is signed "DD 23".

The date of 1923 places this boxing scene in New York City, where Duer kept a studio from 1920 -1925. The two men in the foreground bet against each-other, one man holds a stickpin fashioned in an upside down horseshoe. A boxer sits in his chair at the rings corner while his Coach Fans him with a towel and his assistant tends to the boxer's leg.

Duer's work is represented in the collections of the University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson; six oils and one gouache at the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, DE; the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, WY; the Great Plains Art Museum in Lincoln, NE; and the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, PA." Duer's work is represented in the collections of the University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson; six oils and one gouache at the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, DE; the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, WY; the Great Plains Art Museum in Lincoln, NE; and the 

Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, PA."

Sources include:  

Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art, 1999, page 973 
Davenport's Art Reference, 2006/2007 Edition, page 632 
Glenn Opitz, Editor, Mantle Fielding, 1986, page 240 
Daniel Trowbridge Mallett, Mallett Supplement, page 76