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Home > Exhibits > Joseph Love: Paint Your Passion

This is the first painting in the Black Speed series. Race Day features Gold and Glory Championship race car driver Charlie Wiggins.

Joseph Love, Race Day, 2012, Grisaille (grayscale) oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches

This is the first painting in the Black Speed series. Race Day features Gold and Glory Championship race car driver Charlie Wiggins.
  • This is the first painting in the Black Speed series. Race Day features Gold and Glory Championship race car driver Charlie Wiggins.
  • This painting depicts top driver and mechanic Charlie Wiggins and his wife Roberta after his first Gold and Glory Sweepstakes victory in 1926. His homemade race car was known as the Wiggins Special.
  • This is a portrait of Gold and Glory Sweepstakes four time winner, Charlie Wiggins.
  • This is a portrait of flamboyant driver William Jefferies, Charlie Wiggin's arch rival.
  • 1955 Mercedes-Benz W 196 Formula 1 race car in action.
  • This is a painting of a 1937 Mercedes-Benz W125 Formula 1 race car. The W125 reached race speeds of well over 190 mph.
  • Former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Johnson displaying his need for speed.
  • This painting is celebrating Formula 1 championship racer, Lewis Hamilton (British) during his 2014 season. The number 44 was the number on Hamilton's go-cart he would race as a kid. Additionally, was also the number plate (F44) on his father's car.
  • Lewis Hamilton's Vodafone McLaren MP4-22 Mercedes.
  • This is a painting of Lewis Hamilton’s #44 Formula 1 World Championship winning car.
  • This is a portrait of the late, great three-time Formula 1 World Championship driver Ayrton Senna, who inspired Lewis Hamilton and artist, Joseph Love.
  • Vodafone McLaren Mercedes MP4-22 piloted by Lewis Hamilton. In his rookie season he won four races.
  • A painting of Formula 1 race cars flying.
  • Lewis Hamilton's first Formula 1 victory at the 2007 Canadian Grand Prix.
  • Sir Lewis Hamilton was knighted in the Queen’s New Year Honours in 2021.
  • Nashville's Music City Grand Prix opened in August of 2021. The annual 2024 Music City Grand Prix will be held this September. https://musiccitygp.com/
Joseph Love: Paint Your Passion

February 2, 2024–March 29, 2024

Growing up with only a smattering of arts classes and drawing lessons from his father, Love is largely self-taught. An equal rights activist, Love recognized that African American racers were often left out of Formula 1 and Indy race histories; Love knew his talent for painting could be used to give historical and current racers a chance to have their stories spotlighted and shared with new audiences. Some notable racers featured in his paintings include American Charles “Charlie” Wiggins, who won the Colored Speedway Association’s Gold and Glory Sweepstakes four times during the 1920s and 30s.  Love also painted racer Sir Lewis Hamilton, a British Formula 1 driver that has won seven World Drivers’ Championship titles, holds the record for the most race wins of any driver in the history of the sport, as well as the most pole positions. Read more here.

 

 

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