Baseball Art II (and Football) and why things aren't always as they seem Lelands Jan 2007

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Posted By: davidcycleback

I just looked at the final price, and think it's a fair price. If someone wants to plus or minus the, that's fine. It's nice looking, large and took a skilled painter to make it. A painting isn't a poster or photo, in that it takes the painter literally hours or more to make it and requires quite a bit of skill-- skill that most don't have. If a Negro League specialist likes and displays the painting, I think the price is fair enough ... Having said that, the name of the painter, or at least that he has a prestigous background (art shown in some museum or a former artist for Sports Illustrated), does effect price ... Apparently, while he did not paint the portraits, McDonald had the paintings made for his purposes. If you can, as is the case here, say your painting was commissioned and owned by a Pro Football Hall of Famer, that's about as significant as saying the painter is well known. As you'd expect, most sports painting collectors would get a kick to find out that a painting was commisioned by George Brett, Rollie Fingers or whomever. You may be able to inquire and discover that the painter is someone of note-- I say this as the paintings are of a skill level high enough to be done by a professional and perhaps someone we've heard of.