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Before the Game #5

Artist Darragh Park (American, 1939 - 2009)
Date1994
MediumWatercolor on paper
DimensionsUnframed: 41 1/2 x 29 1/2 inches (105.41 x 74.93 cm)
Framed: 44 x 32 1/4 inches (111.76 x 81.92 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Estate of Darragh Park
Object number2012.2.3
SignedLower right corner, written in cursive in pencil: Darragh Park
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Not on view
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DescriptionThe subject is a baseball game. The focal point is a man in the center of the painting leaning back against a railing and wearing a baseball cap, white shirt and blue pants. In the foreground of the painting are the abstracted shapes of the backs of the heads of the audience.
Copyright© Estate of Darragh Park, William C. Halter, Jr. (attorney and co-executor) and James M. Park (co-executor)
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