Oh damn…

Bears!

On this day in 1911, the great Josh Gibson was born in Buena Vista, GA. Here's my painting of the great man with the Cangrejeros de Santurce (Liga de Béisbol Profesional de Puerto Rico) in 1939. Card collectors might recognize the image from Josh's scarce 1950-51 Toleteros issue.

No matter the league, no matter the era, Josh Gibson stands as one of the greatest power hitters of all time. The legendary Negro Leagues catcher was born #OTD in 1911.

So fun! This is my buddy’s son who I’ve know since he was little! Stoked for Aesop!

wild little Richard Serra drawing, no idea greg.org/archive/2025...

Self-Portrait, 1982 https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5126

Here it is! hyperallergic.com/1054876/oppo...

Four Oranges by Ellsworth Kelly, 1966 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137701

I’m just a boy, standing in Sam Fogg’s booth, asking for some late sixteenth-century German religious carving

Good morning. Here’s D’Angelo and David Sanborn crushing Bill Withers. What a loss. R.I.P. to a real one.

Curtain by Paul Klee, 1924 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137530

Prisoner of Love #1 by Glenn Ligon, 1992 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137511

Roy Hobbs tells Pop Fisher the story of his prized bat "Wonderboy" after his amazing first batting practice with the New York Knights in the classic #baseball movie, "The Natural". ~ RIP Robert Redford #Legend

Let’s see some tobacco cards!

Here are the 7 I’m feeling good about. These 7 together narrow it down to the 1930-1932 NY Giants. Posting the PSA DNA authenticated ball that I’m using to compare the signatures. I’m still not certain about whether Lindstrom is on the bottom of the panel or in another spot. Still looking! 1/2

How does a 59 year old song still sound so fresh? youtu.be/pHNbHn3i9S4?...

Some other pics. Mike told me it has lived in a SOCK for decades. It’s now in a cube. I’m feeling good about Fred Fitzsimmons and Carl Hubbell. I think I see a Bob O’Farrell on there too (I know his sig a little from my Bloomington Bloomers research). Def NY Giants. Hubbell’s rookie year was ‘28.

I’m trying to figure out whose signatures are on this ball. I believe one is Fred Fitzsimmons - he played from the 20s to 40s & had a heck of a career. Anyone out there have any ideas on the other sigs? www.baseball-reference.com/register/pla... @sabrbbcards.bsky.social @sabrpictorial.bsky.social

Untitled, 1981 #artbots #basquiat https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5036

Noctilucent Clouds. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. 29 June 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

Drawings and writing on birch bark by Onfim, a 6- or 7-year-old boy who lived in Novgorod, Russia, in the mid-12th century. There are 17 preserved documents, including this one, as well as letter 199 (not pictured) that shows "a portrait of himself, disguised as a fantastic animal"

ChatGPT efforts to remove the netting. Distorted the figures - twisted and ghostly.

Anyone know if there is a way to have the net removed from this image of Sey’s first homerun? I’d love to get a print made of it…thank you.

Grandson hit his first home run tonight! He texted, “I knew it was gone.”

To Repels Ghosts, 1986 #artbots #basquiat https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5295

long shot (here, might've been better in the Twitter days), anyone got this book: William Morris's Kelmscott: Landscape and History, 2007? I've only copied a chapter out of it and then got a spread missing! (pp. 66-67). Have got about half of it off Google Books snippets but seem to have got stuck.

Prisoner of Love #3 by Glenn Ligon, 1992 #artbots #guggenheim https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137637

Untitled, 1980 #artbots #basquiat https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/4994

Love this early RPPC of a baseball game I picked up at an antique show today. Saw it last year and didn’t buy it…I was over the moon the vendor still had it today. The ball is on the way…the ump behind the pitcher. The pitcher’s follow-thru. The fielders. The batter and how he’s holding the bat.

Thursday Hail brings Friday Dust Storms.

It's Drawing Day! Self-Portrait Drawing by Käthe Kollwitz, charcoal, 1933. Look how she drew her arm!

Repetitions - University Galleries at Illinois State University. A couple of images from the show. Works culled from the Galleries’ permanent collection. Up through the Summer.

The guitar solo on Hell is Chrome.

Art school graduates carry some of the highest student loan burdens in the US. If you are concerned about your wages being garnished due to collections being restarted, and attended a visual arts program at a US art school, I'm interested in interviewing you for ARTnews. My Signal is karenkho.45

Saturday evening. Dewey Lake, MI.

Saraband by Morris Louis, 1959 #artbots #guggenheim https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137471

Jackie Robinson Day - grateful for him and all the folks who integrated baseball.

This Rain https://www.wikiart.org/en/agnes-martin/this-rain-1960

In the Current Six Thresholds by Paul Klee, 1929 #artbots #guggenheim https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137579

The Center for Craft is accepting applications for the 2025 Craft Archive Fellowship. Six $5,000 awards will support research on underrepresented craft histories, culminating in an article on Hyperallergic.

One of my recent pick-ups. Type 1 of Herman Schwartje (spelled “Schwartze” on the back). He threw a perfect game for our hometown Bloomington Bloomers in 1925. Great to see the shot of him at old Fans Field. Check the folks in the background! 1/2

To mark the birthday of Vincent van Gogh—iconic modern artist born today in 1853—a thread of some of my favorite, relatively lesser known works by him. First up, the stunning multi-colored variegation of his Tree Trunks in the Grass, made in last months of his life krollermuller.nl/en/vincent-v...

the effectiveness of Holzer's unrestrained opulence in bringing attention to her artworks' content is enhanced by exhibiting it in the billionaires' private museum sanctuary greg.org/archive/2025...

Ed Ruscha, "A Wad of Fun," 2013

1951 team-issued photo of Luke Easter. Great shot! Sending another Easter Egg to the stands.

She was so, so good: Ruth Asawa, Poppy, 1965

Artist Gertrude Abercrombie & Sonny Rollins, Chicago, mid-1960s, photographer unknown

If you are not a SABR member, this is a great time to join: Free baseball cards! There are a million other reasons, and the only requirement is that you love baseball. Or at least like it. I joined just out of college, and it still brings me great joy. Please join me! sabr.org/500-club/