Painting the Corners of History
Long gone ballparks come to life, every detail correct, from signage, down to the weather of that particular day. Legendary players and moments center stage. Grand uniforms woven with skill once again worn to perfection.
In each portrait the eyes give a peek into the baseball soul – from superstars to little known players. This isn’t a dream, no, it is the magnificent baseball paintings of Graig Kreindler. There is no one better. He presents the game and legends like Mickey Mantle in mesmerizing works of art.
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Negro Leagues Baseball Museum receives donations thanks to artist's tweet
The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is receiving more national attention and support.
"The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is more important today than ever before," said Bob Kendrick, the museum's president. "This is a museum about social injustice."
A well-known national painter said the importance of the museum is critical right now. That's why he donated to the museum.
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Baseball artists, writers shut out by coronavirus pandemic
Anika Orrock was all warmed up for her big pitch. On the mound at Yankee Stadium, tossing out the ceremonial first ball.
On Tuesday night, though, the baseball illustrator and cartoonist will be far from the Bronx. Instead of starting off the Pirates-Yankees game, she’ll be back in Nashville, Tennessee, pondering her fate.
No way to tour the country, promoting and celebrating the publication of her first book, based on the women pros popularized by the movie “A League of Their Own.”
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Exploring the Glorious Baseball Art of Graig Kreindler
At home in Brooklyn today and raised as a follower of the Bronx Bombers, baseball artist Graig Kreindler paints the greats from both storied franchises. And the greats, period. And whoever else he is commissioned to paint.
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‘A window into the past’: Through painted portraits, a new exhibit at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum brings players into living color
Graig Kreindler stood in the back of the foyer and felt overjoyed.
In front of Kreindler, a respected painter, was around 200 people. The crowd gathered Thursday night at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum for one of the biggest events in its 26-year history: the 100th anniversary since the birth of the Negro National League, the society-changing and inspirational operation that helped transform America.
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Baseball’s True Colors
“I believe the lights were on,” wrote Bobby Thomson to Graig Kreindler, who was researching the Shot Heard Round the World, the storied walk-off home run that sent the New York Giants to the World Series five decades earlier. Kreindler knew that the sun was low in the sky behind first base and dimmed by dark clouds when Thomson came to bat a few minutes before 4 p.m. on October 3, 1951, at the Polo Grounds in Upper Manhattan.
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The timeless baseball art of Graig Kreindler
Graig Kreindler is a craftsman, an old soul and a self-professed perfectionist.
His paintings transport the viewer to a different time and place, a neat trick that’s every bit as hard as it sounds. His technique is masterful, but the details are what make his paintings really sing.
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Perfectionist Graig Kreindler Paints Baseball's Greats
Graig Kreindler has spent the past four months searching for the exact color of the lettering on an obscure 19th-century baseball jersey from Detroit. So his portrait of Charlie Bennett—catcher for the long-defunct Detroit Wolverines—sits unfinished on the floor of his Brooklyn studio, stalled indefinitely. “I need to get it right,” he said of the color. “That’s the kind of thing that keeps me up at night.”
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Artist captures national pastime on canvas
Laura Ingle reports from New York
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An Interview with Graig Kreindler
YES Network. SportsLife NYC Interview with Graig - June 5, 2011. Link to YouTube Clip.
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The Old Ballgame, Recreated in Color
HE roots for Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez and the rest of the team at least once a week, but after a few innings Graig Kreindler often feels compelled to flip off the TV and head downstairs to his basement painting studio in Airmont, N.Y. There, on the easel before him, he encounters a different breed of Yankee: Mantle. DiMaggio. Gehrig. Ruth.
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