Leonard
Everett Fisher Celebrates America's Favorite Pastime: BASEBALL!
at Cavalier Galleries new location in
NEW YORK CITY!
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| the Starter |
The
inaugural exhibition at Cavalier Galleries’ new Manhattan location will feature
the work of Pulitzer Prize winning, native New York artist Leonard Everett
Fisher. Fisher’s series of 11 paintings
are a celebration of America’s favorite pastime: Baseball.
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| the Left Fielder |
Baseball is
the most widely played sport in America, and has been for centuries. Before video games and television came to the
forefront of entertainment, children throughout the country would pass the time
by playing this much loved sport. In
Leonard Everett Fisher’s collection of paintings, the players are purposely not
identified as legendary players or professional teams, but are each given a
Greek letter, symbolizing their position in the game. Having illustrated, and often authored, over
200 children’s books, Fisher’s distinctive style shines through as the story of
a baseball game is played out through this delightful series of paintings.
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| the First Baseman |
Leonard Everett Fisher was born in 1924 in New York City. Fisher’s artistic studies included training
at New York’s Heckscher Foundation with Moses
and Raphael Soyer, as well as with Reginald Marsh at the Art Students League of
New York, and Serge Chermayeff at Brooklyn
College. After serving in the army, Fisher went on to
receive his BFA and MFA from Yale University, and in 1950 was honored with a
Pulitzer Award for painting. Leonard
Everett Fisher’s paintings, drawings and illustrations can be found in the
collections of the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution's National
Museum of Postal History, the New York Public Library, the New Britain Museum
of American Art, the Butler Institute of American Art, and the Society of
Illustrators Museum of American Illustration.
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| the Closer |
Click HERE to preview the entire exhibition online
Cavalier
Gallery, LLC
15
E. 71st Street, Suite 2a, New
York, NY 10021
Please call or email to schedule and appointment to view the exhibition
212.570.4696 | art@cavaliergalleries.com | www.cavaliergalleries.com
