Baseball

 

John Ross

  1921 - 2017 (biography)

1960  

two color woodcut 

17 15/16 x 11 3/4" image 

pencil, lower right 

not stated 

pencil dated, lower right, after signature 

 

thin white wove 

published 

artist 

19459 

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Ross assumes a vantage point as seen from a pitcher's perspective. This woodcut shows the catcher, about to receive the pitch he just called; the umpire, crouched over the catchers left shoulder for an inside view and, reminiscent of a Japanese ukiyo-e print, the hands of the batter appearing from the right margin. The action is about to begin.