SOLD Bob Shawkee Pitching-For-Yanks-1921 Graphite Drawing Native American carving Blank on reverse

Blank on reverse

The back side is painted green

Just such a pretty form on this antique pin cushion

stony surface

and I believe with quite a lot of years on it

SOLD Bob Shawkee Pitching-For-Yanks-1921 Graphite Drawing Native American carving Blank on reverseI love the game of baseball, and everything about this drawing, most of the strange but very tender handling of the fingers on Bob Shawkey's pitching hand so good. His cap and glove and slightly open mouth are all pretty great too, and the style of the lettering at the bottom just right. Surely done by a Yankees obsessed adolescent boy in 1921, who it gives me pleasure to imagine drawing all his favorite players. 8" x 10", graphite on wove paper with