Thomas Jordan Gallery
Negro Leagues Tribute -- by Thomas Jordan Gallery
Regular price
$40.00
Negro Leagues Tribute is a tribute painting to Negro Leagues Baseball players, teams and fans. African-Americans began to play baseball in the late 1800s on military teams, college teams, and company teams. They eventually found their way to professional teams with white players. However, racism and "Jim Crow" laws would force them from these teams by 1900. Thus, black players formed their own units, "barnstorming" around the country to play anyone who would challenge them. In 1920, an organized league structure was formed under the guidance of Andrew "Rube" Foster-a former player, manager, and owner for the Chicago American Giants. In a meeting held at the Paseo YMCA in Kansas City, Mo., Foster and a few other Midwestern team owners joined to form the Negro National League. Soon, rival leagues formed in Eastern and Southern states, bringing the thrills and innovative play of black baseball to major urban centers and rural country sides in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America. The Leagues maintained a high level of professional skill and became centerpieces for economic development in many black communities.
The print can be purchased selecting one of following options:
- Framed canvas gicleé mounted in a 1” solid black wood frame with an open back. Your canvas gicleé has a UV Coating to resist any fading and make cleaning worry free and comes ready to hang with 10 gauge wire and screw eyes permanently attached to the stretcher bars.
- Framed paper print framed in a 1” or 2 “ wood frame with a satin finish. Every paper print includes a 1/4” plexiglass front that resist 100% of damaging UV rays, and archival foam core backing to keep your print looking new.
- High quality paper print delivered rolled in a shipping tube.
- 11 x 14" and 16 x 20", framed matted print reproductions printed with the same high-quality as full size canvas Giclée and paper prints. Each reproduction is mounted on an archival board with a white acid free mat, framed in a 3/4" black wood frame with a satin finish. Every matted print includes a 1/8” plexiglass front that resist 100% of damaging UV rays, and archival foam core backing to keep your print looking as new and bright as the day you purchased it. All framed paper prints come standard with a 10 gauge wire ready to hang.
- 11 x 14" and 16 x 20" matted print reproductions printed with the same high-quality as full size canvas Giclée and paper prints. Each reproduction is mounted on an archival board with a white acid free mat ready to fit a frame of the same size.
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The dimensions for all NON-matted prints are the same as the original painting 24" x 36”.