Show your Baseball art...
 

My Babe Ruth original photo by Paul Thompson c. 1920.

My Babe Ruth original painting by Graig Kreindler 2007.

Not only is Graig a buddy of mine, he is an incredible talent. Judge for yourself. You will NOT be disappointed.

http://www.graigkreindler.com/thumbnails/paintings.html

BTW... Graig will be in Cleveland for the National. Once I get his booth number, I'll post it.

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I'll post a couple, one vintage from circa 1930 when Meusel was with the Reds

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2289/...1c59665887.jpg

and one done by my spouse Jennifer Ettinger of Roy Campanella

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3099/...9bbe442103.jpg

Max

Sketch cards
 

If we are talking baseball art....
I will post a few more of my sketch cards. Some may remember I posted my T206 Wagner sketch a few weeks ago...



http://www.andybroome.com/cobbsketch3.jpg

http://www.andybroome.com/mathewson1.jpg

http://photos.imageevent.com/kawika_...e/DSC06372.JPG
This acrylic rendition of a 1915 Cracker Jack Christy Mathewson was painted by noted Canadian Group of Seven artist, Jennifer Ettinger.

I have a few pieces of original art.
Here are 2 examples, my smallest & largest

The Eddie Plank is from Helmar Beer and is scheduled to become a smaller card.
Hopefully it will be in their next series, perhaps this summer.

http://www.qualitycards.com/ebay/helmarplank.jpg

This piece was sent to me after visiting L.A. last year, Thanks again Anthony!
For some reason Drysdale face appears yellow in the photo, it actually has
flesh tones and is stunning against the yellow backround.

http://www.qualitycards.com/pictures/drysdale.jpg

Great stuff Guys!
 

Just picked up this Willard Mullin original...

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My drawing of 'Ol Diz...
http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/i...ygary/IL03.jpg

And a fake Bowman I did
[IMG]http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/i.../castrodim.jpg[/IMG]for fun...

George Sosnak "1975 Reds" Painted Baseball...
 

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Here are 2 originals by Dick Perez, of Tony Perez. The latter is the original painting used to create his Perez-Steele HOF Card. It came from REA a few years ago, and I still haven't gotten around to framing it...

I guess you could call this a Cleveland version of a Willard Mullin.

Lou Darvas was a longtime, heralded cartoonist for the Cleveland Press. This is the original artwork for a two-column cartoon that ran in the Press Sports section sometime in the 1950s.

Sorry, not pre-war...painting of my favorite post-war player

Clemente by Leon Wolf (oil on canvas)

http://i488.photobucket.com/albums/r...nteArtwork.jpg

Astounding artwork from everyone!
 

Mark. Those Perez/Perez paintings are just fabulous. How did you acquire the first one?

Rob D. Boy do I love that Darvas. I have a Lou Darvas of the Bambino swinging in a tribute that came out in the Sporting News in 1948 the day before Babe Ruth Day at the stadium. It hangs in my living room (no wife). However my girlfriend is coming out from China tomorrow and maybe I can get her to take a picture of it and load it into my laptop. Darvas was a great cartoonist for sure.

This original drawing is from the Topps Vault and was featured on the back of Maris' 1966 Topps card:


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Keep the art coming guys...

Rob

At some point, I'll have to take a photo of my Darvas drawing of Rocky Colavito and post it here.

Max

Jimmy:
We really have some similar taste... I also have an original Mullin of the Bum and the same type of Topps Cartoon art. I will try to dig both up, and post them before too long.

Regarding the first Perez painting, it was also acquired from REA in the same auction. They had so many Dick Perez originals offered at once, that the prices remained fairly low. It was a unique opportunity, and in retrospect, I wish I tried harder for a few more. The only other piece I acquired at the time was the original Ty Cobb Watercolor used to make his Greatest Moments Card. A beautiful piece, which I sold a couple of years ago.

Please do. Would love to see it.

Art

Willard Mullin original from the Sporting News. GM Eddie Collins doesn't think a young Stan Musial measures up to Ted Williams.

This one hangs over my bed...
 

A large 2' X 3' original wooden Bas-relief sculpture of Yankee Stadium by noted folk artist Harry Glaubach. (the picture really doesn't do it justice)

A nice article about the artist... http://tinyurl.com/lf5hg4

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This is the original artwork for a Lucky Strike advertisement.

Cool piece Brock... What time-frame would you put on it.... guessing '40s? Also, have you ever found the actual Lucky Strike print ad to go with it? That would be really nifty!

It would have to be early 1940's at the very latest, as Lucky Strike packs changed over to the now familiar white version during the war in an effort to conserve the green and gold paint for the war effort. The art deco feel of this piece would make me guess its date to be 1930's.

I collect Lucky Strike memorabilia (mostly ads). They have always been my favorite cigarette, and their ad artwork was normally outstanding.

Cou
 

This has to be one of the Best COU cards I have seen. Bought it on Ebay about 2yrs ago. Card looks and feels as real as my others I had. Graded COU by SGC then I sent to PSA and it graded an A because of trimming. Thats another story. Now it is just a Lesson to me and others that there are great artist (counterfieters) out there. And yes I removed it from the Slab

Thanks for the info JBirkholm. I never did much research as to dating it. I just assumed it was 40's-50's time frame.
To answer your question your Mark, I have yet to see the print ad (assuming the design made it to print). Would love to see it if its out there though.

Jodi's info on the green pack would indicate early '40s at the latest. Can't argue with fact, I suppose. I just thought the design and player's uniform looked more modern. Something about it looks more streamlined and tight-fitting than what one normally associates with the '30s era. Either way, it is a visually stunning piece... hope that someday you discover the actual print ad to accompany. Wouldn't it be cool to leaf through an old magazine and stumble upon it?

Here's another Sporting News cartoon, this of Sam Chapman. Somewhat unusual in that colour background is present in the drawing, although I'm not sure whether that is just part of the printing process and whether it shows in the printed cartoon

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2662/...b0b156656d.jpg

Baseball Art
 

A large 104-year-old original editorial cartoon about the prospects of the Columbus (Ohio) Baseball Club for the 1905 season.


http://s915.photobucket.com/albums/a...LLSIGNS014.jpg

Here's a late addition -- vintage Big Klu.

Greg

Here's a couple of small vintage PCL paintings.

More Art
 

Vintage unknown player.

Greg T.

Thought you might like to see this oversized Teddy Ballgame painting, done by a prolific and well known New England painter named John Backstrom. He did a lot of baseball paintings in the 50s and 60s.

Greg

Came across this the other day while looking for something else, so I thought I'd throw it up here.

Some more vintage art

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1006/...4ecefd9f00.jpg http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1312/...de180dbd6c.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/12/91...01d3cdb942.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3649/...c8a15a7603.jpg

Joe -- I assume you painted that Ruth -- very cool!
Here's another Babe and some other Yankee greats.

Mantle/Martin.

Thanks,
Yes, the Ruth is mine.
It's actually done in pencil,as I've never been comfortable with a brush.

I finally figured out the new camera and got a picture of this...
 

1948 Babe Ruth to be Honored at Yankee Stadium.

Original 11x14 cartoon sketch by one of the all-time greats... Lou Darvas.

This is one of my favorite pieces and hangs in my living room.

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Check that date
 

Here's my only actual piece of "art", Leroy is better with the pens and pencils than he was with a calendar.

Thanx to Scott Gaynor for auctioning this, which I bought for myself as a Christmas present. I was a bit shocked that the lovely wife agreed.

Doug

Two strikes and the bases full!
 

Love these post cards...

I wish I could figure out who "A. R. Smith" was, given that the scrapbook is all baseball oriented I think he may have been a player or connected to baseball in some way?

Doug, I TOTALLY agree on the pen and ink front. Great piece!

Ruth, Cobb, Gehrig, Speaker original paintings - Unknown artist
 

Haven't received these yet (hope I don't jinx the postal delivery), but wanted to post the images of these, as I feel these are well done and was hoping someone would know something about the artist or what photos the poses may have been studied from?

Painted on canvas and in need of a cleaning, I understand. Any advice on determining how to decide on a prof. restorer would be appreciated. Max, could I impose on you and Jennifer for advice? Thanks!...chris

Found the Ruth
 

The Ruth is from a Conlon image...are the others as well?

original art work
 

guys, my original art work of robert riger, famed photographer and artist of sports illustrated.

BEAUTIFUL Riger piece. I've always loved his photos, but maybe more so, his beautiful draftsmanship...

Original Signed Virgil Ross "Bat" Boy Sketch from "Baseball Bugs"
 

Of the very many characters Ross animated, he is most closely associated with Bugs Bunny, but also did a great deal of work involving Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, Tweety, and many others, including Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote.

Virgil Ross received the highest awards available in his profession: the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists Golden Award (1984) and the Winsor McCay Award (1988). Four of the cartoons he had animated won Oscars.
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My Graig Kreindler Piece in progress
 

Below is a Kreindler original painting in progress which I commissioned off my Paul Thompson Type 1 Photo. It is killer already. I cannot wait to hang it up!
http://i947.photobucket.com/albums/a...isc/Ruth11.jpg
http://i947.photobucket.com/albums/a...misc/babe2.jpg

Orig Type 1 Paul Thompson Photo
http://i947.photobucket.com/albums/a...os/RUTHPT1.jpg

"GRAND SLAM" Painting by Spalenka
 

One of my favorite artists is named Greg Spalenka. I was lucky to buy this original collage painting from him titled "Grand Slam". It was used in a magazine article describing how baseball has become dirtied due to it's corruption of huge saleries, players going to anyone that will pay the most & such. It has ripped up little pieces of a real dollar bill and has some 3 demensionality. If you would like to see more of Spalenka's work, please go to www.spalenka.com http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...amSpalenka.jpg

1912-13 Minor League BIRMINGHAM BARONS Original Art
 

these are from a collection of 49 one-of-a-kind ink drawings on the message half (back side) of postcards, 16 of them (shown below) featuring cartoon-style Baseball drawings relating to the 1912-1913 Minor League (Southern Association) Birmingham Barons...the front side of the postcards features different views of Birmingham, Alabama (sadly, none of views on front includes Rickwood Field)

the final scanned image features Ty Cobb signing his famous 1913 "reinstatement" contract, and is postmarked April 27, 1913, just a few days after the actual signing of the contract (link for the 1913 NY TIMES article re: the contract signing): http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive...629C946296D6CF


DS


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Something really endearing about those cartoon postcards. I'm of the impression that "Bill" is a baby sending messages to his Aunt Minnie via the pen of his cartoonist father. Is that reasonably what's going on? Great baseball content, wish I had some of the B'ham T210s to show. Any chance you'll post some more of these?

Monty Sheldon original Wagner Painting

:)

Great piece from Monty, Robert. I'm glad I got to see it in person last summer, as well as actually meet the artist. Aside from having some great pieces he was able to show off at the National, he proved to be just a really nice person.

Didn't you end up commissioning a ball form him as well?

Speaking of Monty Sheldon, I believe he did some of the original artwork for
the Helmar Beer card set.
The cards are then size and look of T205's
Here's an original artwork that's almost 8 x 10" w/ the photo that the art was taken from
and the finished product on the Helmar certificate.

http://www.qualitycards.com/pictures/brewer.jpg

http://www.qualitycards.com/pictures/brewerb.jpg

http://www.qualitycards.com/pictures/brewerc.jpg

I really like what Charles Mandel and the Helmar crew are doing. Best modern cards going in my opinion. I picked up this original watercolor at the last Chicago National. It was painted by Kalaish Raj and is about the same size, a tad smaller, than a T3. Snapped this photo of Monty Sheldon; seeing all his stuff at once was incredible.

http://photos.imageevent.com/kawika_...r%20Wagner.jpg

http://photos.imageevent.com/kawika_...e/DSC06194.JPG

I've enjoyed all the items posted!
 

I collect the comic art from Topps cards - I've been collecting it for some time.

However, I would rather post on this Mad comic art I picked up around a month back - one of them is from copy #207 from 1979:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...g?t=1262501802

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...g?t=1262501914

from the mag:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...g?t=1262501961

I liked Mad comic as a kid and I was very excited to have found a couple of items on ebay.

Graig-
I commissioned Monty do this Victor Starffin ball for me in 2002.
He is working on a Starffin card for me now.
Hope to see you in Baltimore this year at the National.

more on Sheldon
 

Robert... Thanks for posting the scans of some of Monty's work. He's completed around 500 of the Artballs so far. Fortunately I own a few..:)... Jay... While Monty has done work for Helmar Brewing, he did not do any of the art for Series 1 cards. Exposure to that set is what put Monty in touch with Charles Mandel. He has since completed more than 100 works for Helmar. This past fall, Monty was approached by Topps and was invited to work on their Chicle (Football) series, along with other artists. He is currently finishing up several pieces for a 2010 Topps baseball series, which should be on the market in a few months...

Birmingham Barons postcards
 

David:

your observation is right on, if I remember correctly.....I think there's even one that relates to "baby Bill" being born, although I only posted the cards which featured the better Barons-related drawings ( there are others with Barons references, plus some re: the life of "Bill" in general )...I'll dig thru the others and maybe even upload a few more images that contain baseball content.

DS

Hey Robert,

I totally forgot about that Victor Starffin ball. If I remember correctly, you told me about it in Cleveland. He was your favorite player, right?

I'm sure I'll be seeing you in Baltimore, though as of now, I doubt Dean and I will be exhibiting. I doubt I'm going to have the time to build up the inventory in time for the summer, as everything I'm doing now is commission-based. I'm hoping to have some time to paint some images for myself, but this year's looking pretty darn busy as it is (not that I'm complaining).

Either way, I'll be there that weekend, and I'm sure I'll do my best to annoy you guys. :)

This piece arrived yesterday...
 

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and it's absolutely terrific! Can't wait to get it on the wall.

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/i...icture25-1.jpg

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/i.../Picture26.jpg

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/i.../Picture27.jpg

One of my new favorite pieces...

really amazing pieces guys!

here is a signed print from Arthur Miller...

In the early 1950's there was a tabloid publication called "Grandstand Manager." John Kiely was the resident artist. Here is an original Kiely of Hal Schumacher.
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Newspaper cartoon origanal
 

Two weeks after this cartoon was in sydicated to many of the newspaper of the day. It ended up along with me at a charity event for 9-11. During a Omaha Royals baseball weekend ball game series.

AWESOME piece, John.

[IMG]http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/i...ygary/detr.jpg[/IMG]

My Black Sox cards
 

sir william nicholson print from the turn of the century, joe dimaggio signed print, my wifes colored pencil drawing over my bar, and an orig. robert riger drawing.

...Bonds asterisk cartoon
 

...reminded me of one I did a while back for Beckett but it didn't run.
Sorry for the low quality pic. Had to use my phone to take it.



http://www.andybroome.com/bonds.jpg


Edited to add... this really isn't a shameless plug but one of my Report Card cartoons is pre-war related...

http://www.andybroome.com/waxstains.htm

My Victor Starrfin & Eiji Sawamura cards...
http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/i...y/japanese.jpg

long time viewer, first time poster. feel a little silly posting some art, due to the talent/minds that are involved in the net54 community, but did want to introduce myself in the form of showing some of my pieces and thought this might be the best place to do so. really have enjoyed and appreciated the conversations that take place around these parts. thanks in advance for taking the time to check out my work. heres to future conversations.
http://www.net54baseball.com/picture...pictureid=7627
http://www.net54baseball.com/picture...pictureid=7626
http://www.net54baseball.com/picture...pictureid=7628

www.541871.com

Chris Susi's THE MAN. Ain't no reason to be shy. Show the rest, dammit!

Graig

Chris,
Great stuff. Welcome to Net54.
I went to your site to peruse your art. Wow some really nice work. What is your medium? It looks like graphite pencil or similar.

Best,
Mark

Chris -

Welcome and wow! Great stuff.

Doug

Awesome Chris! Very impressive!