What is your favorite piece of baseball art -- regardless of format?
 

It can be a poster, print, painting, photo, card, song, film, movie, book -- you name it!

i'll start with a real gem... the paintings of graig kreindler. his cy young portrait is just fraught with absolute quality. all of his paintings are fantastic, but there's so much life to this one in particular.

Every W512 card because the low-effort nightmare that almost every one of them are has me in awe that someone decided to say "Run the presses!" after seeing the artwork that they commissioned.

I have a few pieces of art in the collection
My favorite is an Eddie Plank done by Graig & commissioned by some friends.

https://www.qualitycards.com/picture...ndlerplank.jpg

Graig's paintings are awesome! My favorite in my collection is pictured below. It came from the estate of a noted Americana dealer and I believe it is from the 1880s.

Alan

Go Yanks!

Here are my favorites:

Graig Kreindler Original Paintings
2012 "Schoolboy No More" Eiji Sawamura 20" x 32" Oil on Canvas
2013 "The Captain" Shin Hashido 12" x 18" Oil on Linen
2016 "The Pendulum" Ichiro Suzuki 24" x 20" Oil on linen
Fenway Park, 1946 Oil on Canvas Paper 22" x 15 1/2" c.2003

1902 Study of Honus Wagner, 5" x 7"
1902 Study of Cy Young, 5" x 7"
1900 Study of Horace Wilson, 5" x 7"
1908 Study of Kijuro Abe, 5" x 7"

Monty Sheldon Hand Painted Art Balls
Sadaharu Oh March 23, 2015
Victor Starffin May 1, 2002

Does ad artwork count?

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This one for me.
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My dad makes custom pieces for my items. My two favorite that I have pictures of on my computer are these. One of the most recognizable 19th century prints (not an original) and a frame to match the dugout behind the great St Louis Browns outfield from the 1920s of Williams, Jacobson and Tobin. One thing that doesn't show up here is that he used sand in the paint to mimic the rough feel of concrete.

Here are a few of mine:

The Hassan with Cobb and Mathewson is a small repro stand that I got at a card show years ago. I just like it. I haven't taken the Goudey Gehrig or Play Ball DiMaggio out of the plaque; I'm pretty sure they are repro. The Ken Haag litho signatures are 100% legit; the 1985 Yankees Magazine cover is a reprint, the Dimaggio and Mantle signatures are done with Sharpie but are probably not genuine. I got this at one of those Coral Square Mall card shows years ago cheap. I just like these things in the "man cave".

Probably my original watercolor painting by James Fiorentino, which was used for card #89 in the 2003 Upper Deck Play Ball set. I think it was a redemption card that you could send to Upper Deck to get an original in return.

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these are awesome guys. great topic for me to see because i do a lot of painting myself. you guys might enjoy this portrait of honus wagner i just did tonight based off his 1967 retirado image --

Ruth & Gehrig
 

Ruth & Gehrig painting from 1989


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Besides various cards, I don't own much baseball 'art'. I do like to share this fun Ruth caricature (I don't own the original artwork, just a cutout from a newspaper from the early 1930's).

Brian

While I cannot compete with Graig Kreindler, my favorite is an acrylic painting I did at the age of 17. I owned both '56 and '57 Topps cards of Mays, so I decided to do a composite of them.

Beautiful, Jay. Absolutely beautiful. Gettysburg Eddie never looked better! I'm happy for you.:D --- Brian Powell

Casey, I've loved that perfect action shot of Say Hey ever since I first saw it in a book in the late 1960s. Unforgettable. --- Brian Powell

i love to see the original art in here guys as well as the ad art; that beautiful commissioned graig portrait of plank jay! great stuff. the say hey action shot as well casey and brian is so memorable for me too. cheers all!

If I could only pick one by Graig Kreindler, I think that it would have to be this of the Weiser Wonder.

I am also fond of this piece by Tim Carroll. It pictures Walter Johnson's 1908 Rose Co. postcard and is made of cut up modern cards.

Shameless plug for my daughter who you can commission to do an an original work of art based on the baseball card of your choice (these are my three favorites of the ones she has done).

Please, pass to her that these are fantastic!

Original art from 1985 Detroit News

Ali signed Poster of the great Ali.

Camilo
 

Pascual, who was famous for moving dirt around with his foot between pitches.

I've posted this a few times before. My favorite piece is a painting of Fred Clarke at the Polo Grounds that Graig Kreindler did for me back in 2016. The size is deceiving in the photo. Framed this is a little over 3 feet tall.

I can never get a good pic of these. I have them on a wall that gets no direct sunlight in a room full of windows. As a group these 8 cut card pieces are my favorite. I have a story for everyone of them. Took me around a year and a half to have all 8 made. I commissioned the Wade Boggs first and then went all in.:)

Here is my artwork of Mike Marshall that I did for 8th grade art class back in 1975 as a graded art project. This was done for my Dad as he was a big Dodger Fan and now the oil painting on canvas is hanging in my Garage

Laser Engraving something different

You people are so dog-gone unsophisticated when it comes to fine art.

Note the stellar composition and bold brushstrokes of this masterpiece...

I like the "standing dogs room only" detail on top of the grandstand roof.

Brian

Imma go with something a little more 3-D.

Even as a little boy before I knew what Major League baseball was I was fascinated by this Norman Rockwell painting, The Dugout. What is ironic about it is at the time the painting was made, 1948, the Cubs were just a couple of years past being a successful and storied franchise, it was the years after this painting was made that the Cubs were a laughingstock organization a majority of the time. I never knew the story behind the painting until I googled it a few minutes ago, Cubs manager Charlie Grimm and Cubs players Bob Rush, Johnny Schmitz, and Rube Walker agreed to pose for the original photo and the batboy was actually a Boston Braves batboy who agreed to put on a Cubs uniform for the shoot.

Almost too many to list, but the comic book style artwork from Daniel Horine.

These take the cake as best post in this thread, hands down!

Love those comic books! Oh to be a kid again in the 'fifties - Topps cards, Superboy comics, the Lone Ranger on TV and Ike in the White House.

A couple of odd items that I like: "Saturday Afternoon at Sportsman's Park" by Edward Laning (1944). Got your baseball, got your cold beverage of moderation. Pretty idyllic.

https://photos.imageevent.com/kawika...%20Laning.jpeg


"Safe at Home Plate" - The New Yorker Aug 27, 1949 Speaks to the inner kid of anybody who dreamed of someday playing in the Bigs.

https://photos.imageevent.com/kawika.../ny_082749.jpg

Number one favorite artwork in my collection: Joe Wood as seen by Karl Horner in 1909 and depicted by Graig Kreindler a century later.

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https://photos.imageevent.com/kawika...ner_Wood_1.jpg

https://photos.imageevent.com/kawika...Kreindler_.jpg

Have a nice Sunday, everybody.

If you look real close on the first base side, you'll see a dog bisquit vendor.

I'm trying to use filters and such to turn my obsession with the 1972 Willie Mays card into perhaps a Van Gogh (pronounced "Van Goff" :D) t-shirt design...

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Still remember seeing that Wood painting in person when you first got it, was incredible then, is incredible now.

Circa 1930’s
 

Herbert Bohnert art…

Another Carroll piece...

His work is amazing. This Jeter is my favorite piece of his, sadly not mine.

Two more from Graig:

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Another Great Rockwell:

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Was going to type exactly this, Jeff. Truly a fantastic piece, David! (one of multiple Kreindlers that you own, as memory serves)

Hey Brian! Miss you bud. Your Wagner is pretty special too.