Right+to+the+Jaw

Date: 1926-1927
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1976/1976.122.2_1a.jpg?itok=KXIRJXL8 width="340" height="243" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/right-jaw-28321"]] || Title: **Right to the Jaw**

Artist: **Mahonri Young** Born: Salt Lake City, Utah 1877 Died: Norwalk, Connecticut 1957

Medium: bronze, Roman Bronze Works, Inc. (Founder) Dimensions: overall (includes base): 15 x 21 1/4 x 10 1/8 in. (38.1 x 54.0 x 25.7 cm Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Mahonri Sharp Young

Accession: 1976.122.2 || Mahonri Young was enthusiastic about sports throughout his childhood and often attended boxing matches with his younger brother, Wally. On a trip to Paris in 1926, Young began his popular Prizefighter series, which included //Right to the Jaw//. Sporting events and sports heroes were very popular in the American market during the 1920s, and Young’s prizefighters, which emphasized the excitement and glamour of boxing, brought him widespread recognition.
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