Friday, February 8, 2019

Pitchers and Catchers report! February 2019

It is that time again and Chicago major league baseball fans await to see baseball headlines as their teams report for spring practice.  "Pitchers and Catchers Report" is the first sign that we are getting ready to start the 2019 season.


Enjoy my new etchings of Guarantee Rate Field and Wrigley Field 

and the historic pregame quote from Cub's longtime public address announcer Pat Pieper:

"Attention.....attention please.....have your pencils ....and scorecards ready..... for the correct lineups..... for today's ballgame"!



                                 This is Wrigley Field
Plate 159
Aquatint Etching with hand coloring
6 x 12 inches

                   


                         Home of the Chicago White Sox
Plate 163
Aquatint Etching with hand coloring
8 x 10 inches


                        

                  1060 West Addison from the "L"  
                            Home of the Chicago Cubs
Plate 027
Aquatint Etching with hand coloring and Pat Pieper quote
7.25 x 10.75 inches



Addison and Sheffield Home of the Chicago Cubs from the "L"
Plate 028
Aquatint Etching with hand coloring
7 x  9.5 inches




The White Sox Park and a Chicago skyline from Parking Lot E
Plate 118
Aquatint Etching with hand coloring
4.75 x 7 inches





The irreplaceable Sawbridge Studioes in Hubbard Woods is closing in April.

Here is their announcement:


Yup. You read that right. It’s time.

For twenty-five years we have had the privilege of working with the greatest customers and finest artisans we could have ever imagined. And, many of these fine people have become good friends in the process. That’s something we treasure most.

We have made the difficult decision to step away from our physical retail operations and put our primary business focus on our website,sawbridge.com. There we hope to build our web presence and further develop our corporate gift and reward program.

During this transition period and starting immediately, you can look for some incredible values on our remaining floor stock.
Stop into the Winnetka store for details.

Thank you all for 25 great years. 

Bill and Paul

1 comment:

DGO SOX said...

These definitely provide warm thoughts of summer. Love the colors