Cards As Art - Post Some (Pre or Post War)

[CW]

These are two that epitomize "art on cardboard" to me, both commonly seen, but both worthy of mention.

The Mathewson's yellow and blue background shows the beauty of the lithography from the time period, while somehow capturing the grace and dignity of "the Christian Gentleman". (card shown is an E92, but the image exists in other E sets)

The Speaker is one of many pieces of art from the T3 Turkey Red set, showing Tris in mid-swing, most likely ready to unleash one of his 792 career doubles (yep, I looked it up! ). It's a still image, but you can imagine the fluidity and motion of the swing. The intensity in Speaker's face, the ripples in his uniform, and the red socks all come together to form a piece of art on cardboard.

[soccersaver97]

Originally Posted by CW

These are two that epitomize "art on cardboard" to me, both commonly seen, but both worthy of mention.

The Mathewson's yellow and blue background shows the beauty of the lithography from the time period, while somehow capturing the grace and dignity of "the Christian Gentleman". (card shown is an E92, but the image exists in other E sets)

The Speaker is one of many pieces of art from the T3 Turkey Red set, showing Tris in mid-swing, most likely ready to unleash one of his 792 career doubles (yep, I looked it up! ). It's a still image, but you can imagine the fluidity and motion of the swing. The intensity in Speaker's face, the ripples in his uniform, and the red socks all come together to form a piece of art on cardboard.

That Speaker pops! I think I might have found one of my favorite cards/artwork!

[GaryPassamonte]

hand colored masterpiece.

[I Only Smoke 4 the Cards]

That Cobb is great. I would love to know what he was grinning about.

[3-2-count]

One of my all time favorite shots that is no doubt art in my opinion...

[I Only Smoke 4 the Cards]

Originally Posted by 3-2-count

One of my all time favorite shots that is no doubt art in my opinion...

I agree. That would make a good poster.

[jerrys]

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[packs]

One of my favorite sets:




And my favorite pose of all time:

[shernan30]

The Anson is awesome. Probably one of my favorite cards. It's been on my list of must haves for a while now.

[CW]

Originally Posted by soccersaver97

That Speaker pops! I think I might have found one of my favorite cards/artwork!

Welcome to the club, my friend, welcome to the club. (thanks, btw)

Originally Posted by JasonL

The baseball card is its own medium within the art world.
My all time fave is the T206 Lajoei with bat....to such an extent I devoted a page on my website to that card. For me, that one sums up an entire era. I also started a thread on this Board several years ago that ran for a while on the T206 sunsets...fanastic artistic images in so many pre-war card sets...

http://www.thetriple-l.com/themythicalrelic.htm

^^^ That's a cool little tribute there to a great card.

Originally Posted by Leon

You are like I was several years ago. You see cards and think you just have to have one . The Oakes is a great pose.

I think that's how I built the majority of my collection, and what a great way to collect! Some cards just grab you, and you add it to the watchlist.

I was also turned onto the Oakes card by this very forum years ago (the old style Net54), and I was turned onto the '33 Goudey Gehringer by the CU forum when someone posted one there years ago.

Here's a few more...

T216 Tris Speaker (see also E90-1, which is also fairly tough to find)
E92 Sherry Magee (almost on par with the Rebel Oakes card)
'41 Play Ball DiMaggio
'49 Leaf Musial
'33 Goudey Gehringer
N43 Buck Ewing -- doesn't get much better!