Baseball Card Art

[Rhotchkiss]

Attachment 568690When I first learned about what Tim Carroll was doing with art and baseball cards - making large baseball cards out of cut up baseball cards- I immediately commissioned a PC796 Cobb-Wagner, which is my all-time favorite card. While waiting the 1+ year for the piece to be completed, I had the opportunity to buy his 1952 Topps Mantle. Both pieces are pictured below.

We often regard the pictures on cards as art (select the T3 set!). Her is some art made out of cards!

Let’s see art pieces of famous cards, players, photos, etc.

[bnorth]

Very nice. I have these 9 baseball ones and this one of the strongman GOAT Big Z.

[Rhotchkiss]

Wow Ben, awesome. Are those by Tim?

[GeoPoto]

I have two major collecting focuses (foci?): Vintage Washington Senators and the men who became the first black baseball players to play for each of the major league teams. When I first discovered mosaics made from cut baseball cards, made by Ben Caraher, I commissioned two, one for each focus: Walter Johnson's 1914/5 E145 Cracker Jack and Larry Doby's 1949 Bowman. Both are now framed and hanging as key pieces of the two collections in my home in SC (which I am not now at). Walter is shown below and Larry is my Net54 icon.

I was very pleased with Ben's art and followed up by commissioning two more pieces which I gifted to sons-in-law. One was Goose Goslin's 1933 DeLong and the other was a poster of Rickey Henderson featuring an image of Rickey immediately after setting the career stolen base record. I do not have an image of the Goslin piece on my VA computer, but the Henderson piece is shown below.

I picked the Rickey piece because one son-in-law had grown up an Athletics fan and had the poster hanging in his bedroom for years after his mother had gotten it signed by Rickey. Of course, the signed poster had disappeared sometime around college, etc. The mosaic takes its place.

Tim Carrol's art is fabulous, but I think Ben Caraher runs right with him. Or at least did; I am not sure that Ben is still creating mosaics.

https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1682608996
https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1682609075

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Rhotchkiss

Wow Ben, awesome. Are those by Tim?

Mine are from John English.

The baseball ones are 11 X 17 each and Big Z is 22 X 17.

[Peter_Spaeth]

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[mrreality68]

Wow these are all amazing

[ALBB]

member - Todeen also does nice baseball card art work

[brianp-beme]

Cards alone are expensive enough for me. I have to settle for making card sculptures out of what I have.

Brian

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by ALBB

member - Todeen also does nice baseball card art work

They are amazing. Hopefully he posts the Gehrig one. The coolest part for me with his work is that it is all one single layer thick. That takes a lot of time and precision work.

[Rhotchkiss]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

Cards alone are expensive enough for me. I have to settle for making card sculptures out of what I have.

Brian

LOL. They are great!

[nebboy]

Ryan attempt - Found out 2 things. The overall size can be to same and face pieces can be to big or your eye doesn’t mix the collage well.

[Harliduck]

Wow...that Honus/Cobb is my favorite I have seen of his now...wow.

[todeen]

Originally Posted by ALBB

member - Todeen also does nice baseball card art work

Originally Posted by bnorth

They are amazing. Hopefully he posts the Gehrig one. The coolest part for me with his work is that it is all one single layer thick. That takes a lot of time and precision work.

Thanks for the kind words. I'm really happy it turned out as well as it did. Gehrig took 85 hours, but Barry Larkin seems to be going fast than that. I'm still trying to get my footing for the mosaics. But I think I know what I want to do in the future after I wrap up Babe Ruth and Barry Larkin.

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by Rhotchkiss

LOL. They are great!

Thanks Ryan. Late 1980's to mid 90's cards are getting hard to source as well, due to all the great card cutting artists out there.

Brian

[perezfan]

Originally Posted by GeoPoto

I have two major collecting focuses (foci?): Vintage Washington Senators and the men who became the first black baseball players to play for each of the major league teams. When I first discovered mosaics made from cut baseball cards, made by Ben Caraher, I commissioned two, one for each focus: Walter Johnson's 1914/5 E145 Cracker Jack and Larry Doby's 1949 Bowman. Both are now framed and hanging as key pieces of the two collections in my home in SC (which I am not now at). Walter is shown below and Larry is my Net54 icon.

I was very pleased with Ben's art and followed up by commissioning two more pieces which I gifted to sons-in-law. One was Goose Goslin's 1933 DeLong and the other was a poster of Rickey Henderson featuring an image of Rickey immediately after setting the career stolen base record. I do not have an image of the Goslin piece on my VA computer, but the Henderson piece is shown below.

I picked the Rickey piece because one son-in-law had grown up an Athletics fan and had the poster hanging in his bedroom for years after his mother had gotten it signed by Rickey. Of course, the signed poster had disappeared sometime around college, etc. The mosaic takes its place.

Tim Carrol's art is fabulous, but I think Ben Caraher runs right with him. Or at least did; I am not sure that Ben is still creating mosaics.

https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1682608996
https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1682609075

Fully agree....

Ben is right up there with Tim Carroll. Beutiful examples of Walter and Rickey!

[bammerbb]

The Mantle card in the first post is gorgeous, being a Yankee fan I love the blue background. However, I would not want the Cobb-Wagner at all with Honus being misspelled.

[invest]

Here are my two pictures made by Tim. Absolutely love them!!!

Troy

[Rhotchkiss]

Originally Posted by bammerbb

The Mantle card in the first post is gorgeous, being a Yankee fan I love the blue background. However, I would not want the Cobb-Wagner at all with Honus being misspelled.

Thats how it is spelled on the actual postcard (it’s not an error in the art). Wagner’s first name was Johannes. He has been (and in some cases signed his name) that, Johan, Hans, Honus. This is the only place I have seen Honas, but seems as arbitrary as Honus.

[theshowandme]

Incredible pickups Ryan.

I saw Tim’s depiction of the 1955 Topps Koufax in Cooperstown last year. It was awesome

Hope to own one someday


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[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by Rhotchkiss

Thats how it is spelled on the actual postcard (it’s not an error in the art). Wagner’s first name was Johannes. He has been (and in some cases signed his name) that, Johan, Hans, Honus. This is the only place I have seen Honas, but seems as arbitrary as Honus.

Keep in mind that in 1910 only 6% of the country had a high school education, so a misspelling here and there was probably pretty common.

[Schlesinj]

For anyone who went to the Philly Show this weekend, you may have seen this piece along with others. Sounds like they were at the National and they and other artist may have special section next year. I want an original photo to pair with my Uncle Jimmy ticket & program, but this felt like a good compromise for the price.

https://www.murrayhendersonart.com/

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[todeen]

Adding my second. The weather will set me back on my Ruth In working on. I'm contemplating starting a Wagner or Joe Jackson.20230628_115221.jpg

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[Peter_Spaeth]

Different concept, but Topps Project 2020 involved artists doing their own renditions of some iconic cards. Here is Gregory Siff's take on the Ripken RC which I think is fantastic. This is a fine art print version of the card.

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by Schlesinj

For anyone who went to the Philly Show this weekend, you may have seen this piece along with others. Sounds like they were at the National and they and other artist may have special section next year. I want an original photo to pair with my Uncle Jimmy ticket & program, but this felt like a good compromise for the price.

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THAT is a beautiful painting

[molenick]

My daughter has done a few drawings of cards...either as a commission or just for her own amusement.

[todeen]

Originally Posted by molenick

My daughter has done a few drawings of cards...either as a commission or just for her own amusement.

I like those. Are they drawn on a tablet?

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[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by molenick

My daughter has done a few drawings of cards...either as a commission or just for her own amusement.

Michael, tell your daughter she does great work. I'd be interested to see her take on some pre war cards.

[molenick]

Thanks, guys, I will tell her. She draws them on paper with Posca paint markers. I will see if she has done anything pre-War, she usually goes through the Topps book covering 1951-1985 looking for players or designs she finds interesting. After that she finds an image online that she prints and then works off of that.

[perezfan]

Originally Posted by Schlesinj

For anyone who went to the Philly Show this weekend, you may have seen this piece along with others. Sounds like they were at the National and they and other artist may have special section next year. I want an original photo to pair with my Uncle Jimmy ticket & program, but this felt like a good compromise for the price.

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Simply stunning!

[Eric72]

I got a piece from Tin a while back. I went in a different direction and got something that was made out of cards…but wasn’t a depiction of a baseball card.

The frame isn’t crooked; I just can’t take good photos.

[Eric72]

A detail from an angle

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Eric72

I got a piece from Tin a while back. I went in a different direction and got something that was made out of cards…but wasn’t a depiction of a baseball card.

The frame isn’t crooked; I just can’t take good photos.

That is a beautiful Starry Night.

Here is another pic of my baseball ones without all the glare. I have tried putting them in different positions but like this configuration best. I went with the Ted Williams wrapper because I like the looks of it more than any of his cards.

[ullmandds]

A few pieces ive had comissioned.

[perezfan]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

A few pieces ive had comissioned.

Awesome, Pete....

Who creates those tall skinny 3-dimensional guys? Guessing you have Cobb, Ruth and Shoeless Joe on display there... Love 'em all!

[Leon]

I don't have any of this art but it looks great.

Originally Posted by Rhotchkiss

Attachment 568690When I first learned about what Tim Carroll was doing with art and baseball cards - making large baseball cards out of cut up baseball cards- I immediately commissioned a PC796 Cobb-Wagner, which is my all-time favorite card. While waiting the 1+ year for the piece to be completed, I had the opportunity to buy his 1952 Topps Mantle. Both pieces are pictured below.

We often regard the pictures on cards as art (select the T3 set!). Her is some art made out of cards!

Let’s see art pieces of famous cards, players, photos, etc.

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by perezfan

Awesome, Pete....

Who creates those tall skinny 3-dimensional guys? Guessing you have Cobb, Ruth and Shoeless Joe on display there... Love 'em all!

thx! local guy here in st paul...david ekdahl. you got the 3 right!

[Schlesinj]

Went to the Philly Show to drop off some items to get graded with SGC (thanks for the free admission) and some more artists are attending. The artist of the painting I bought last time (post above “Babe Ruth Bows Out”, Murray Henderson, was attending and I had a really great conversation with him. Amazing how the different sides the brain work with creativity.

In addition another artist was attending as well. His name is Andy Friedman
https://www.andyfriedman.net/. I talked with him a little while as well and he apparently has some series of cards commissioned through Topps (Spotlight 70) where they take his original art of watercolors and turns them into a card.

I picked this up as a momento from being 10 at the time. They were the greatest players I knew then. Not one of the cards clearly, but still an original 1 of 1.

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[Snowman]

All of these pieces are incredible! I think I need to get a couple of these made. Would anyone care to share approximately how much they cost?

[asoriano]

Here's an original watercolor painting by James Fiorentino used to create card #89 in the 2003 Upper Deck Play Ball set. The level of detail on the original is off the charts.

[gabrinus]

Ignore the dust...Jerry

[Rhotchkiss]

Originally Posted by Snowman

All of these pieces are incredible! I think I need to get a couple of these made. Would anyone care to share approximately how much they cost?

Google Tim Carroll art. You can order whatever you want. I think the waitlist was like 8 months and the cost about $8k+/-. But contact Tim directly

His pieces are totally amazing

[campyfan39]

A mural my friend painted for me for my card room.

[ValKehl]

Very, very nice, Chris!

[Schlesinj]

Good weekend for my new art collection. May need a few more walls. Could not wait 9 years for one.

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[terjung]

Incredible pickup! Welcome to the Kreindler club! I'm confident that you will love it once you have it in your home.

[MVSNYC]

Great piece, Jamie! Congrats.

I was lucky to buy mine (for my son) when they were $600