‘America’s Pastime’ photo exhibit ends Saturday at center
Saturday will be the final day for the public to view “Picturing America’s Pastime” at the Hot Springs Convention Center, Visit Hot Springs said Tuesday.
The exhibit of 51 photographs from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, sponsored by Relyance Bank, is free and open to the public between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. today, Thursday and Friday, and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
“We ask that visitors enter the building through the main lobby entrance on Convention Boulevard,” Visit Hot Springs CEO Steve Arrison said in a news release.
“Picturing America’s Pastime” features 51 framed photographs representing the Hall of Fame’s collection of around 250,000 images. An extension of the Museum’s exhibit in Cooperstown, N.Y., the touring version of “Picturing America’s Pastime” “captures the essence of an exhibit designed to show the historic link between the advent of photography and baseball,” the release said.
“Some of the greatest photographers of the last
150 years found baseball to be the perfect canvas for their work,” Erik Strohl, the vice president of exhibitions and collections at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, said in the release.
“The images in Picturing America’s Pastime represent a small sample of the brilliant work we preserve in Cooperstown, and the touring exhibit gives fans all over the country the chance to experience the beauty and power of these photos firsthand.”