Brooklyn Native Combines Baseball with Fine
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Brooklyn Native .~. Combines Baseball With Fine Art By Theresa M. Danna You can take the man Ihe action for a tableau ef out of Brooklyn, but you fecI. can't take the Brooklyn "Impressionist artists out of Ihe man. Further havealways paimed mun more, for impressionist dane ~ubjects that the baseball painter Brian average person could Byrnes. you can'l lake the relate to. like Monet's boy out of the man either. haystacks and Toulouse· Born at Coney Island Lautrec's circuses. I have Hospilal on August 30. the opportunity 10 do the 1938. Ihe sixth of nine same thing." children in an Irish fami When the Dodgers ly, Brian spent his celebrated their lOOth an boyhood summers niversary last year. Brian dreaming in the Ebbets gOt the idea to combine Field bleachers. baseball with fine art as a Today he awakens way 10 express his own those memories, as well as real feelings aboul the boyhood dreams of something Ihat was im would-be major leaguers portanl to him. who wound up as accoun Even Ihough he paints tants and lawyers. players from a variety of "Baseball has its own teams and several peculiar emotioQal land· ' ballparks that are scape," he muses. "It favorites among sen· evokes daydreams. timentalists, Ebbets Field memories, the essence of and the old Brooklyn youth. summertime and Dodgers are by far the energy. The slowness of most requested subjects. the game allows time to Brian has painted: Daz· reflecl, not like Ihe inlen zy Vance. Pepper Martin, sity of basketball. It's Pete Reiser, Preacher medilative, not violent Roe. Jackie Robinson, like football." Carl Furillo, Ted Brian feels that the im Williams. Roger Maris. pressionist style of pain Whitey Ford, Warren ting is most suitable to Spahn. Sportsman Park. with his life·long capture emolions, like the Wrigley Field and Don blnes fine I1rt tf9:lning f Ebbe1s Field'and sun dappled fields and the Larsen's perfect game at . Byrnes com .' I palnllngsO Yankee Stadium. "'yn nalive Boan ique impreSSIonis lextures of the player's BroolU eball 10 create u.n uniforms and gloves. He Original paintings loveofbas Dodgers. recreales the range in price from $150 tbe Brooklyn choreography of the pit to $400. Limited edition cher's wind-up and the full color prints cost $40. batter's swing by using the For more information basic principles of tension write to him al PO Box and dynamics through the 3399, Pacoima, CA proper use of tones. lines 91333·3399 or call (818) and color. He then freezes 896-2493. Dazzy Vance' Image size 14" x 21" Pepper Martin' Image size 14" x 21" Eb~ts Field' ImaRe size 16" x 2J1' .