If you do take in the SuperBowl or promotional programming today you may hear the name Radcliffe Bailey. No he is not a player or coach, he is an Atlanta based artists who has a marquee work in the Mercedes-Benz stadium which is hosting tonight's game.
Bailey has done a few baseball themed works including a piece titled "Mound Magician":
Mound Magician: Radcliffe Bailey (Nelson-Atkins art museum)
The canvas of the collage is shaped like a baseball field with a #25 in a star at the center which represents Satchel Paige. The number was worn by the future Hall of Famer while a member of the Kansas City Monarchs. Similarly Josh Gibson #20 his shown at home plate. There are a number of other baseball references throughout the picture included a black & white photo in the second base area.
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Radcliffe Bailey's work at Mercedes-Benz stadium is an 84 foot mixed-media behemoth which chronicles the journey of football at Atlanta Historically Black Colleges. However that is just part of the artwork which also tells the much broader story of the black experience and African-American history.
Sources and Links
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Atlanta Magazine
Atlanta.Net
Bailey has done a few baseball themed works including a piece titled "Mound Magician":
The canvas of the collage is shaped like a baseball field with a #25 in a star at the center which represents Satchel Paige. The number was worn by the future Hall of Famer while a member of the Kansas City Monarchs. Similarly Josh Gibson #20 his shown at home plate. There are a number of other baseball references throughout the picture included a black & white photo in the second base area.
Radcliffe Bailey's work at Mercedes-Benz stadium is an 84 foot mixed-media behemoth which chronicles the journey of football at Atlanta Historically Black Colleges. However that is just part of the artwork which also tells the much broader story of the black experience and African-American history.
Sources and Links
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Atlanta Magazine
Atlanta.Net
Very cool. At first, I thought this piece was some sort of Japanese fan or something.
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