RALPH FASANELLA POSTER- BB GAME IN THE SCHOOLYARD

Description: PRICE REDUCED! Large Ralph Fasanella poster of a baseball game played in a city school yard. Original work was painted 1967. Poster measures 22" x 28,” the image portion is 16” x 22.5." It is signed in the plate be by artist and dated 1967. This poster was printed for a show at the Nardin Galleries in NY, in the spring of 1979 and is labeled that way. Poster is framed under glass on a heavy silver metal frame. The Condition is very good, ready to hang. About the Artist: American, 20th century. Born 1914, New York City; died 1997, New York City. Born and raised in the Bronx until his family moved to an apartment on Sullivan Street near Washington Square Park when he was five years old, Fasanella grew up in an Italian-American working-class family. His parents immigrated to the United States in 1910, his father finding work as a longshoreman and an ice delivery truck driver, his mother raising six children and working as a sewing machine operator in Lower Manhattan's garment industry. Needless to say, the working-class milieu in which Fasanella lived and worked played a significant role in shaping the form and content of his art. Although he painted for more than fifty years, Ralph Fasanella didn't pick up a brush until the mid-1940s, when he was thirty-one years old. He came to art by way of personal and political convictions, and as postwar American cultural and political preferences swayed from progressive-conservative to conservative-liberal preferences, he sometimes found himself in favor, sometimes out of step. Yet he persevered, leaving an impressive body of several hundred canvases, many sketches, and broad respect and admiration from multiple spheres, including art and labor. At the beginning of his career and then again toward the end, Fasanella's celebratory images of the American working class, reformist politics, and a more egalitarian and just society were deemed out of sync and even dangerous. Today, as demonstrated by the surge of protest by groups like Occupy, and growing recognition of the abiding facts of American economic disparity, Ralph Fasanella's paintings are more revelatory, and relevant, as ever. _gsrx_vers_1706 (GS 9.9 (1706))

Price: 45 USD

Location: Vero Beach, Florida

End Time: 2025-02-01T17:51:26.000Z

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