SOLD Bob Shawkee Pitching-For-Yanks-1921 Graphite Drawing antique copper rivets Froebel Gifts 2 through 6

Froebel Gifts 2 through 6 (aka "the Building Gifts") are wood blocks in various shapes and quantities

born in Versailles

MA in 1866

I'd keep him on the corner of my desk hoping he might bring wisdom

as if a study for a medal to be cast in bronze

SOLD Bob Shawkee Pitching-For-Yanks-1921 Graphite Drawing antique copper rivets Froebel Gifts 2 through 6I 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