SOLD Wallie Schang Yank's Catcher Season 1921 Graphite Drawing on Board knotted basket black ink on cream stock

black ink on cream stock

The patina on this one a beautiful thing

and this one to my eye is as good as they come

an Irish aristocrat and revolutionary

SOLD Wallie Schang Yank's Catcher Season 1921 Graphite Drawing on Board knotted basket black ink on cream stockI love the game of baseball, and everything about this drawing, most of all the interplay between the lines of Schang's fingers and the pattern of stitching on the baseball in his throwing hand. His pads and shin guards and glove are all pretty great too, plus facial expression that looks quintessentially a catcher's to me. Surely done by a baseball obsessed adolescent boy in 1921, who it gives me pleasure to imagine drawing all his favorite Yankees.