SOLD Wallie Schang Yank's Catcher Season 1921 Graphite Drawing on Board man with wheelbarrow Accompanying the striking images in

Accompanying the striking images in many cases are terse satirical captions

Corcoran Gallery of Art

this one constructed of beautiful heavyweight white linen

painstakingly executed by hand

I’m pretty sure this was once part of a whirligig

SOLD Wallie Schang Yank's Catcher Season 1921 Graphite Drawing on Board man with wheelbarrow Accompanying the striking images inI 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.