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These athletes are well known for their accomplishments on the field. I am interested in portraying their vulnerabilities as men. I am particularly drawn to painting people whose life experience is very different from my own. Painting these old time ball players is a way of imagining their lives, a meditation on their roles as both ordinary men and American heroes. What remains is an understanding that ballplayers – even great ones – are less acquainted with triumph than they are with failure.
These athletes are well known for their accomplishments on the field. I am interested in portraying their vulnerabilities as men. I am particularly drawn to painting people whose life experience is very different from my own. Painting these old time ball players is a way of imagining their lives, a meditation on their roles as both ordinary men and American heroes. What remains is an understanding that ballplayers – even great ones – are less acquainted with triumph than they are with failure.
Red Sox 1946, 1998, oil on panel, 11'‘x 14”
Trinity, 1995, oil on panel, 11” x 14”
Bearden, Boudreau, Harder, 1996, oil on panel, 6” x 8”
Don Newcombe, 1999, oil on panel, 9.75” x 12.75”
Frank Floyd and Satchel Paige, 2003, oil on panel, 6.5” x 5”
Lefty Grove, 1999, oil on panel, 6” x 5”
Bill Mazeroski, 1999, oil on panel, 12.5” x 9.5”
Yogi, 1999, oil on panel, 4” x 7.5”
Gehrig, McCarthy and Teammates, 2004, oil on panel, 5.5” x 7.25”
Giants, 1998, oil on panel, 4” x 6”
Paul and Dizzy Dean, 1999, oil on panel, 8.5” x 11”
The Gas House Gang, 1999, oil on panel, 3” x 7”
Jimmy Foxx, 2002, oil on panel, 11.5” x 9.25”
Yogi Berra, 2003, oil on panel, 11.5” x 9.25”
Mike Gonzales, 2000, oil on panel, 9.5” x 7.5”
Pepper Martin, 1999, oil on panel, 10” x 7”
Ted Williams, 2000, oil on panel, 7” x 5”
Clyde Sukeforth, 2002, oil on panel, 8.5” x 6”
Satchel Paige, 2001, oil on panel, 11” x 7”
Tony C, 2002, oil on panel, 11.75” x 10.75”