SOLD Bob Shawkee Pitching-For-Yanks-1921 Graphite Drawing ruby-rub can were made to actually display

were made to actually display in bakery windows

and whenever else I wanted to feel like royalty--so maybe everyday

and stands up straight  and sturdy on his base

Henry Moore

SOLD Bob Shawkee Pitching-For-Yanks-1921 Graphite Drawing ruby-rub can were made to actually displayI 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