With His Collection of Americana, Alan Page Makes the Past Visible

In 1981, after 15 years playing with the Minnesota Vikings, Alan Page decided to become a lawyer. This was a rare move for a football player who had achieved mass success, but after finally coming to terms with a years-long inner conflict over sport and law, as Page recently told ARTnews, “it was time for me to move on,” Since then, he has risen to the highest levels of the legal world. In 1993, he was appointed as a justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, the first Black person to o