Laura Gilpin

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 number2015.67.38.26

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, lower left, in white: "Laura / GILPIN" Statistics and quote by respective artist printed on card verso, in black: "Height: 5’ 5” / Weight: 175 / Born: Colorado Springs / Home: Santa Fe, N.M. / Throws: Right / Bats: Right FP: Platinum / FC: View FF: Plus-X / FD: D-23, sulfite / FPh: Paul Strand / Laura Gilpin / Keep coming up to bat."

MarkingsNumber printed inside baseball image, on card verso, upper right, in black: "26"

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DescriptionIndividual "trading card" with portrait of a smiling Laura Gilpin on crutches while holding baseball bat over her right shoulder.

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