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Benjamin Blackburn: Known for his virgin mahogany sculptures of sports figures. Since the fall of 2001, Blackburn has created 113 pieces of baseball art. His subjects have included Ted Williams ('Hub Kid'), Sandy Koufax ('Sandy') and even Moe Berg ('Spy-Catcher') as well as a reproduction of the famed T206 Honus Wagner baseball card and the 33-cent Jackie Robinson stamp.
Kadir Nelson: Famously known for his Negro League paintings in Sports Illustrated and his award winning book, "We Are The Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball". In 1999, Nelson began to collaborate with several notable authors on a series of picture books. Presently, almost twenty illustrated books are in print, including Debbie Allen's DANCING IN THE WINGS, Ntozake Shange’s Coretta Scott King Award-winning book, ELLINGTON WAS NOT A STREET, Deloris and Roslyn Jordan's best-seller SALT IN HIS SHOES, Spike and Tonya Lee’s PLEASE, BABY, PLEASE, and Carol Boston Weatherford’s MOSES: When Harriet Tubman Led her People to Freedom,” for which Nelson won a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, a Caldecott Honor and an NAACP Image Award.
Dane Tighleman: Specializing in fine art prints, original paintings, sculpture and exhibitions. His Negro League postcard series is a highly desirable collectible.
James Fiorentino: Fiorentino has been featured on national and regional television, magazines, and newspapers including ABC World News Tonight with Dick Shaap, CBS This Morning, ESPN's Baseball Magazine, ESPN Magazine, The New York Times, Fox After Breakfast, NBC Good Day New York, MSG's New York Yankee Pre-game Show, and the New York Mets television broadcast just to name a few. He has been interviewed by ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, and UPN affiliates throughout the country.
Ben Sakoguchi: From the 1880's to the 1950's, California oranges were sent to market packed in wooden crates with big, milti-colored labels pasted on the ends. Just as the actual labels had depicted a wide variety of subjects — Sakoguchi's paintings sampled events, issues and attitudes of modern culture. He produced several hundred orange crate label paintings (1974 - 1981) depicting several baseball images.
Mike Floyd: For Hand Painted - one of a kind, entirely drawn and painted by hand artwork on a baseball this is the place to go. You will find great imagery on the Jackie Robinson baseball.
Todd Peterson: The great historian on pre-league teams is also an incredible astract artist and painter about baseball life. Peterson claims his hand-painted work is a physical elegy to the people and things he loves most.
Art Miller: Miller's paintings have been featured in a one-man show at the National Baseball Hall of Fame for the past five years. His Work is collected internationally, and has graced the covers of many book jackets and periodicals.
Reuvenz Beingz: Noted and internationally known caricature artist, Reuven Harris, has channeled his love and
admiration for players from the Negro Baseball Leagues into a sensational hand-crafted sculpture. Each original sculpture is replicated into a quality figurine made from resin and hand painted to give the look and feel of the original artwork. A combination of his unique caricature style and the three-dimensional design makes each figurine a one-of-a-kind product.
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