Arnold Newman

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 number2015.67.38.82

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, upper left, in white: "Arnold / Newman" Statistics and quote by respective artist printed on card verso, in black: "Height: 5’ 8 ½”/ Weight: Too much / Born: N.Y.C. / Home: N.Y.C. / Throws: Right / Bats: right FP: Fly / FC: 4X5 View FF: Fast film&women / FD: / FPh: many of them / Arnold Newman / Basically I’m a football player - / and play baseball exactly the same / way. Women? Beautiful, brainy, / independent and dependable, and / I’ve been married to her for over 25 years."

MarkingsNumber printed inside baseball image, on card verso, upper right, in black: "82"

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DescriptionIndividual "trading card" with portrait of Arnold Newman reaching back to throw baseball while smoking cigar.

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