'Pitchers like poets are born, not made' -- Portrait of Cy Young
 

based off his Horner photograph (Fan Craze 1906 card)


30" x 20"
Architectural Markers on Board

Neat!

thanks jon! had a great time with this one.

Cy Young portraits are some of the best.

Cool painting, though I am more of a realism person.

Portrait party:

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love both of these cards guys -- the horner portrait is iconic and the way its translated into both the t206 and the e90-1 makes both of them some of my favorite cards for sure. love the retirado as well which interprets another one of those great + iconic cy images against that light blue background :D

That’s a very cool artwork. Well done
Here are three different very early Young poses, and one duplicate - the cabinet was later used on a pin.

you own all of these? these are SERIOUS grails. would love to get one of cy's cabinets one day. its wild to see him so young right? (no pun intended) -- most of the cultural images we have of cy depict him as the 'grand old man' on his way out of the game. he spent such a large portion of his career in the time before there was major photojournalistic coverage of the sport.

Yes, they are mine. The problem with collecting Cy Young is that the bulk of his career was during a time when few baseball items, and no cards, were produced and what does exist is so rare and fragile.

that's pretty crazy to have these! you must be really very happy. this is a big part of why to me historically he exists similar to satchel paige as a myth and a memory -- it becomes a question of documentation as illumination. we have to work with stories, news clippings; piecing together history with players like cy becomes a question of illuminating the darkness of what was with what little we know or don't know about the truth of his times to cast his figure into clarity

I wonder why Cy wasn't included in the 1895 N300 Mayo set.