Minimalist Artistic Vintage Baseball Sets

Chris-Counts · #1 12-24-2022, 12:59 PM

The Bowmans from '48, '50 and '53 are have no-frills designs ...

Chris-Counts · #2 12-24-2022, 01:05 PM

Along with the Play Balls from 1939, are also three regional "no-frills" sets from 1940-41 that feature players from the Reds, Browns and Cardinals ...

G1911 · #3 12-24-2022, 01:24 PM

These sets are photographs rather than artwork. I can’t think of a baseball artwork set, off the top, that has no design elements other than the 1950 Bowman’s.

carlsonjok · #4 12-24-2022, 01:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by G1911

These sets are photographs rather than artwork. I can’t think of a baseball artwork set, off the top, that has no design elements other than the 1950 Bowman’s.

Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange would like a word...

Chris-Counts · #5 12-24-2022, 03:52 PM

Aren't the 1950 Bowmans hand-colored photographs?

G1911 · #6 12-24-2022, 03:55 PM

Whether an original painting or hand colored over a photograph used as the model, it seems the OP's meaning of 'artwork' is a conventional usage of the term, to designate artistic depictions in the sense of drawings/paintings/colorings and not photographs. I don't see an issue to debate.

Chris-Counts · #7 12-24-2022, 04:13 PM

I have no idea what the OP intended, but my dictionary agrees that photographs are artwork.

G1911 · #8 12-24-2022, 04:47 PM

I would think someone aware of 1950 Bowman would be aware that 1953 Bowman exists. The intent seems to be fairly clear. I did not and am not saying a photograph cannot be a piece of art or denigrating Ansel Adams, but being pedantic over every little word people use when the context seems to make it clear feels like a waste of time to me.

brianp-beme · #9 12-24-2022, 05:09 PM

Another B/W photo issue is the 1933 Butter Cream set.

Brian (card not mine)

robw1959 · #10 12-24-2022, 05:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris Counts

I have no idea what the OP intended, but my dictionary agrees that photographs are artwork.

Nope. Artwork isn't camera work; it's painting by hand. So the only baseball set example I have seen so far that features full-color artwork on the front with no player names is the 1950 Bowman set.

robw1959 · #11 12-24-2022, 05:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris Counts

Aren't the 1950 Bowmans hand-colored photographs?

No, they are scaled-down renditions of original artist paintings.

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