Arthur Siegel

Artist Mike Mandel (American, born 1950)

Date1975

MediumPhotolithograph

DimensionsImage: 3 1/8 × 2 3/16 inches (7.94 × 5.56 cm)
Sheet: 3 1/2 × 2 1/2 inches (8.89 × 6.35 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2015.67.38.15

SignedCopyright printed on card verso, bottom, in black: "Gum by Topps Chewing Gum, Brooklyn / Litho by Mike Roberts, Berkeley / © Mike Mandel"

InscribedName printed on sheet recto, bottom, in white: "Arthur SIEGEL" Statistics and quote by respective artist printed on card verso, in black: "Height: 5’ 9” / Weight: 135 / Born: Detroit / Home: Chicago / Throws: R / Bats: R FP: N.Y. Times / FC: no favorite FF: Hammer blue plate / FD: Pyro / FPh: A.S. / Arthur Siegel / All photographs are lies. / All photographers are liars. / I am a photographer. I was born in / Detroit. The search for literacy is / my obsession. / The illiterate of the past was ignor- / ant of baseball, pen and camera alike.”

MarkingsNumber printed inside baseball image, on card verso, upper right, in black: "15"

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DescriptionIndividual "trading card" with portrait of a bearded Arthur Siegel with eyes closed and arms raised as he removes his catcher's mask.

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