Ellen Brooks

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 number2015.67.38.9

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, top, in white: "Ellen BROOKS" Statistics and quote by respective artist printed on card verso, in black: "Height: 5” 8”/ Weight: 135 / Born: Los Angeles / Home: San Francisco / Throws: Underhanded / Bats: Depends FP: Zee / FC: booth at Santa Monica Pier FF: exposed / FD: Mark Eden / FPh: Bunny Yeager / Ellen Brooks / A piece off my bathroom wall: / “We have the same problems as the / Titanic, but the Titanic had a / band.””

MarkingsNumber printed inside baseball image, on card verso, upper right, in black: "9"

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DescriptionIndividual "trading card" with portrait of a smiling Ellen Brooks who's wearing a baseball cap, glove, and sunglasses and raising arms high above her head.

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