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Hours by appointment
For studio information, availability of pieces, prints,
commissioned work as well as upcoming events
please contact the studio at 217-737-9625
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"The Catcher" 2008
18" virgin mahogany sculpture
mounted on matching mahogany base
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Baseball as Art
Cleveland County Arts Council
111 South Washington St
Shelby, NC
Exhibit coincides with 2008 American Legion World Series
Opening Reception July 10th 5:30-7:30 PM
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"Big Apple Baseball"
April 1 through May 15th, 2008
Art at the National Jewish Hall of Fame and Museum
74 Hauppauge Road, Commack, New York
on the web at http://jewishsports.org
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"HeadOn: A Century of Frustration"
hand-tooled cedar flat with other mixed media
On spring display, 2008
Bob Feller Museum
Van Meter, Iowa
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" These Diamonds Are Forever: New Work by Benjamin Blackburn"
September 13th-October 19th
Becker Gallery
Springfield College
1500 N. Fifth St.
Springfield, IL
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"Summer Steam"
Chowan Arts Gallery
200 East Church Street
Edenton, North Carolina
June 1st thourgh July 1st, 2007
on the web at chowanarts.org
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Spring Training: The Art of Baseball
March 25th - April 28th, 2007
George Krevsky Gallery of 20th Century Art
77 Geary Street
San Francisco, California
on the web at georgekrevskygallery.com
"Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand."
-Leo Durocher
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November 18th-January 12th, 2007
An American Legacies Invitational
Who's On First?
ALVA Gallery
54 State Street
New London, CT 06320
on the web at alvagallery.com
"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball.
America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. Its been erased
like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But, baseball has marked
the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past, Ray.
It reminds us of all that once was good, and could be again."
-From WP Kinsella's 'Shoeless Joe' (Field Of Dreams)
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"Six"
2007, mahogany panels
on winter display at
Chicago Street Images
202 South Chicago Street
Lincoln, Illinois
"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball.
I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."
-Rogers Hornsby
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"Motorcycle Race," 2006
New Acquisition of the Bob Feller Museum
Bob Feller Museum
310 Mill Street
Van Meter, Iowa
online at bobfellermuseum.org
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"Tiger's Teeth"
cedar wood sculpture, 2006
For the Collection of George Kell, Swifton, AR,
The Bob Feller Museum, Van Meter, Iowa and
Wonderboy Gallery Holdings
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1791: Art Of The Game
Pittsfield, Massachusettes
2 year Citywide civic display beginning in mid May, 2006
artgamepittsfield.org/home.htm
"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
The game begins in the spring, when everything else
begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the
afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains
come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone."
-A. Bartlett Giamatti
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"Black and Orange," 2006.
Cedar wood sculpture
On fall display at
Chicago Street Images,
202 S. Chicago Street
Lincoln, Illinois
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"Stosh," 2006
New work by Benjamin Blackburn
Cedar wood sculpture for the Collection of S.F. Musial,
Dick Zitzmann and Wonderboy Gallery Holdings.
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"Number Nineteen"
2006, cedar wood sculpture
Original artwork for the Collection of
The Bob Feller Museum, Van Meter, Iowa
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"1955: In The Year Of The Boar"
2006, cedar wood sculpture for the Collections of
E.D. "Duke" Snider and Wonderboy Gallery Holdings
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"Roberto Clemente"
2006, cedar wood sculpture
1/2 pieces for the Collection of
The James Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
online at jamesgallery.net
July 7th-August 5, 2006
¿Y Tú Qué Haz Hecho?
(lyrics by Eusebio Delfín, 1920s Cuba)
On the trunk of a tree, a young boy
Filled with joy, carved out his name
The tree, touched to the core
Let a flower drop down to the boy.
You are the tree, gone now
I am the boy, still here
I will always treasure your name
What have you done with my flower?
En el tronco de un árbol un niño
Grabó su nombre enchido de placer
Y el árbol conmovido allá en su seno
Al niño una flor dejó caer.
Tú eres el árbol que se ha ido
Yo soy el niño aún aquí
Yo guardo siempre tu querido nombre
¿Qué has hecho de mi flor?
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Celebrate Illinois Arts Week
October 8 - 14, 2006
Wonderboy Studios is proud to join the
Illinois Arts Council in celebrating Art In The Land of Lincoln
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"Tribesman"
2006 cedar wood sculpture
For the Collection of
The Western Reserve Historical Museum
Cleveland, Ohio
on the web at www.wrhs.org
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"Three Works on Canvas"
The Literary Salon
November 9th, 2006 8:00 PM
To celebrate the publication of the
Baseball edition of The Gulfstream Literary Journal
Luna Star Cafe
770 N.E. 125th Street
North Miami, Florida
"Poets are like baseball pitchers.
Both have their moments.
The intervals are the tough things."
-Robert Frost
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27th Annual Chance of a Lifetime
Gala Benefit Auction and Dinner
to benefit the
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
December 9th, 2006
Silent auction begins at 5:30 PM
McCormick Place Lakeside Ballroom
& Arie Crown Theater
Chicago, Illinois
online at jdrfillinois.org
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Sarah Lawrence College
Students For Students Scholarship Auction
February 27th, 2007
Reisinger Auditorium
Bronxville, New York
7:00 PM
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Top of the Ninth:
The Art of Baseball
March 30th-April 29th
George Krevsky Gallery of 20th Century Art
77 Geary Street
San Francisco, California
415-397-9748
georgekrevskygallery.com
"There have been only two geniuses in the world.
Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare."
~Tallulah Bankhead
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To Satch (American Gothic)
Sometimes I feel like I will never stop
Just go on forever
Till one fine mornin’
I’m gonna reach up and grab me a handfulla stars
Swing down my long lean leg
And whip three hot strikes burnin’ down the heavens
And look over at God and say,
How about that!
Samuel Allen, 1968, Ivory Tusks and Other Poems
Proud Member of Art Saint Louis and
The Butler Museum and Institute of American Art
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