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Anatomy of Baseball poster by Dugald Stermer

Anatomy of Baseball poster by Dugald Stermer

Beautiful art by award winning artist Dugald Stermer

 

18" tall by 24" wide printed on thick 100# book weight paper.

 

Buy 1 get 1 free for a limited time.  

 

I like Dugald's baseball art because it takes me back to my own childhood going to watch baseball before the game was polluted by advertising and branding on everything.  

 

The Anatomy of the Baseball gets at the core of the game, the baseball illustrated so you can see what the right stuff is made of without all the surface corporate chatter distracting you and me from the improbable beauty of this great American game.

 

This Anatomy of the baseball  poster goes great on the game room wall and will make a great gift for any baseball fan.   

 

FYI you can order 25 or more wholesale for $5 ea for your teams or wholesale.

 

Go wild!  Get the 5 baseball cards.  Great sale. 

 

Here is the New York Times obituary about Dugald Stermer,  my friend and the artist of the Baseball and salmon posters here at Good Nature

 

By Steven Heller

  • Dec. 7, 2011

Dugald Stermer, who achieved renown and sometimes angered the government as the art director of the influential left-wing magazine Ramparts in the 1960s, died on Dec. 2 in San Francisco. He was 74.

The cause was respiratory and cardiac failure, his daughter Crystal Williams Stermer said.

An accomplished illustrator, Mr. Stermer was also known for books of his own artwork celebrating the beauty of endangered species.

He was doing design work in Houston — and developing his trademark look: jeans, cowboy boots and leather vest — when, in the late 1960s, the advertising executive Howard Gossage recommended him for a job in San Francisco as art director of the revamped Ramparts, a journal of politics, culture and investigative reporting. (Founded in 1962, it closed in 1975.)

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Dugald Stermer was also known for books of his own artwork celebrating the beauty of endangered species.Credit...Courtesy Stermer family

Mr. Stermer created a classical, bookish typographic format that influenced the designs of the early Rolling Stone and New York magazines. As art director he oversaw satiric covers critical of the C.I.A. and opposing the Vietnam War, and he persuaded Norman Rockwell to contribute a portrait of the peace activist and philosopher Bertrand Russell.

 

One antiwar cover, in December 1967, provoked the government’s ire by showing the hands of four men burning their draft cards. The hands belonged to Mr. Stermer and three fellow editors. They were subsequently called before a federal grand jury in New York, accused of instigating action harmful to the best interests of the United States by encouraging civil disobedience.

But prosecutors “decided it wouldn’t be good public relations to indict magazine editors, so after our testimony they let us go,” Mr. Stermer said in an interview for the blog of the Society of Publication Designers.

After leaving Ramparts in 1970, he collaborated with Susan Sontag on the first American book of Castro-era Cuban posters, “The Art of Revolution.” But he always wanted to make his own art. Whenever he redesigned a magazine, he commissioned himself to do some illustrations. This led to a few Time magazine covers rendered in a stylized, posterlike manner, which Mr. Stermer admitted was lifeless — “an excuse for not being able to draw well,” he reminisced this year.

So he decided to teach himself to draw in a classical way. During the past three decades he worked on hundreds of advertisements, book covers and posters, as well as the official medal for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. He also taught at the California College of the Arts, where he was chairman of the illustration department at his death.

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A Ramparts cover from December 1967.

Mr. Stermer’s passion for making exquisitely detailed color drawings of animals, plants and insects evolved partly from a magazine cover he created using a portrait he drew of the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia. Always keen on expressing something “beyond the surface image,” he captured Garcia’s wild, mischievous side, transforming him into a bear.

 

Mr. Stermer devoted considerable time to naturalist work for magazines and books. Among his books are “Vanishing Creatures,” “Vanishing Flora” and “Birds & Bees: A Sexual Study.”

He also designed and illustrated for Outdoor, Sierra and other environmental magazines. His art was shown in a one-man exhibition in 1986 at the California Academy of Sciences, where a portion of his San Francisco studio was reassembled and displayed.

Born on Dec. 17, 1936, Dugald Robert Stermer was a native Californian who majored in art at the University of California, Los Angeles, and in the 1950s became a graphic designer with Richard Kuhn & Associates. He took a job in Houston when the design business there was booming.

Mr. Stermer’s two marriages, to Carol Love Bacon, who has since died, and Jeanie Kortum, ended in divorce. In addition to his daughter Crystal, he is survived by a sister, Robin Crickmore; four children from his marriage to Ms. Bacon — Dugald, Megan Blue, Christopher and Colin — and five grandchildren.

 

 

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