John Clapp
Illustration
(13 k), large version (91k)
Baseball card for a AAA baseball team, promoting a Home Run Derby benefiting the Negro League Players Association.
Client: Scranton /
Wilkes-Barre
Red Barons (AAA Baseball)
Art Buyer: Dean Mullaney
Watercolor on paper
Problem:
A baseball card
promotion for the AAA Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons,
part of a pre-game Home Run Derby benefiting the Negro
League Players Association.
Solution:
This is a portrait
of Armando Vazquez, the famous 2nd baseman for The
Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro Leagues.
A straightforward portrait, but one of my favorites. Recently, I traded it to Murray Tinkelman, the nationally known illustrator and Illustration Dept. Chair at Syracuse University, who has created a permanent travelling show of baseball illustrations created by contemporary illustrators. The rental proceeds for the show benefit The Special Olympics.