IMPORTANT BOXING PAINTING by JOSEPH SHEPPARD Well lstd.
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Sell more with every listing. Get Vendio Gallery today!This Painting is from my Fathers personal Collection of Boxing Items and was displayed in our Art gallery in the early 1960s.It shows a scene from Mack Lewis' Gym in Baltimore Md.. ..Paint is in wonderful condition with no damages or restorations.It could use a good cleaning.Paint measures unframed approx 21" by 17" The Framed Painting measures approx 25.5" by 21.5".Joe Sheppard is the Best artist in this genre, period..One of the best Painter's of Boxing subjects alive today..This gem of a Painting has been my favorite for many years..Sheppards works bring in Major dollars ..His Boxing Paintings are eagerly sought after and do not come up on the market often.When they do you can expect to pay upwards of 25 to 75 Thousand dollars.Sheppard was one of our featured artists when our family owned Braverman Gallery Sport in Art on Madison Ave. in New York City . The Gallery was in Business from 1960 thru 1970..We only dealt in Sporting themes by the top artists of the day. and were next door to Hirshl and Adler Galleries .Sheppard is a renowned artist teacher and Author on drawing the Human form..I also have listed 2 Limited edition prints of Football and Boxing. .I have owned this Sheppard Painting for 45 years.Two Museums have asked to obtain the Painting in fact the Butler Institue of Art has a picture of my Dad Big Al done by Sports Illus artist Russell Hoban ( I will be listing 3 other Hoban Illustrations this week) The Painting in the Butler Museum on permanant display is entitled The Boxing Promoter.. Any Boxing Fan, Fight Promoter Star Boxer or World Champion, Museum, Casino or Boxing Arena would love this Sheppard in their Lobby, Den or Business..Mack Lewis is a legend in Baltimore as is the Artist.Joseph Sheppard and not a nicer guy you could meet in the entire Art World ....................................................................................................................................................................................... Focusing on the human form, Joseph Sheppard has created paintings and sculptures in the figurative realist tradition. He has studios in Baltimore, Maryland, and Pietrasanta, Italy. He studied with Jacques Moroger and Reginald Marsh and closely read the anatomical writings of Leonardo DaVinci and 14th-century physician, Andreas Vesalius.In Sheppard's genre and figure works, many of the figures seem off balance and twisted in their poses, giving his paintings a sense of motion as though the figures are interacting with each other. His canvases are filled with "an endless parade of dancers, acrobats, and athletes" Regarded as a "role model for figurative realists", Sheppard stated: "I believe that technical skill is an important element in art and that the figure is not only a subject but the most elevated form of art" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The following is from the artist's website: www.JosephSheppard.com BORN: Owings Mills, Maryland, 1930 TRAINING Maryland Institute of Art, 1948-1952 Guggenheim Traveling Fellowship to Florence, Italy, 1957 AWARDS AND PRIZES Peale Museum, Baltimore, Maryland Emily Low Prize, Allied Artists of America, 1956 John F. and Anne Lee Stacey Scholarship Award, 1958 Bronze Metal of Honor, Allied Artists of America, 1963 First Purchase Award, Butler Institute of American Art, 1963 John McDonough Prize, Butler Institute of American Art, 1967 Governor's Prize, Maryland Artist's Exhibition, 1971 Tallix Foundry Prize, National Sculpture Society, 1983 Paul Puzinas Award, Allied Artists of America, 1983 Willliam Meyerowitz Memorial Award, Allied Artists of America, 1985 Agop Agapoff memorial Prize, National Sculpture Society, 1986 Silver Medal of Honor, Allied Artists of America, 1986 Percival Dietsch Prize, National Sculpture Society, 1994 MUSEUMS/COLLECTIONS Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, Davenport, Iowa Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona Columbus Museum of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, Norfolk, Virginia Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland Brookgreen Gardens Museum of American Sculpture, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, Alabama New Britain Museum of Art, New Britain, Connecticut Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Malcom Forbes Collection, New York, New York Musco Dei Bozzetti Di Pietrasanta, Italy PUBLIC WORKS Mural of five panels, Police Department, Baltimore, Maryland, 1975 Two murals, Peabody Court Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland, 1987 Holocaust Memorial (15 foot bronze sculpture), Baltimore, Maryland, 1988 Seven murals, Palmer House Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, 1989 St. Francis of Assisi, life-size bronze sculpture, St. Joseph's Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, 1992 RECENT EXHIBITIONS Early October, 2000 Presentation of portrait of Lawrence Cardinal Sheehan The North American College Vatican City, Rome November, 2000 Presentation of portrait of Senator Barbara Mikulski Goucher College 1021 Dulaney Valley Road Baltimore, Maryland 21204-2794 November 10, 11, & 12, 2000 "Great American Artists Exhibition and Sale" Cincinnati Club Cincinnati, Ohio November 17, 2000 through January 1, 2001 One-man exhibition of paintings & sculpture 20 North Saint Clair Gallery Toledo, Ohio January 7 through February 11, 2001 Allied Artists of America Butler Institute of American Art 524 Wick Avenue Youngstown, Ohio 44502...... From Ring to Antiques by Phil Berger NY Times March 9th 1996During the week, Al Braverman, King's director of boxing for 28 years, may be knee-deep in the tumult that has recently surrounded his boss's business. But on weekends and if Braverman ever gets a Vacation Braverman shifts gears changes his stance and becomes involved in a world quite far removed from the rowdiness and fisticuffs of the fight game. Unlikely as it seems, Braverman and wife Renee and their Children Gary and Cory are antique dealers and Art Gallery Owners specializing in works of Art only having to do with Sporting Games. Previously Big Al had been involved with his Dad Lou Braverman in the Pawn Shop industry where he garnered a wealth of Information on anything and everything of Value.. Al's knowledge is most impressive in antiques and art as well as his ledgendery status in Boxing as an Exceptional Man in the Sport, some say the absolute BEST total talents as a Corner man/ Cut Man, His other duties in the Ring encompassed that of a Trainer, Manager, Promoter and Undefeated heavyweight. He ran all the Boxing in Africa putting on events and training prospects in his Gym in Accra Ghana for our forces during WWII. Big Al spoke fluent Ga which was the Nat'l language. He legitimately challenged Joe Louis to an exhibition bout for the troops in Ghana the Gold Coast which Big Al now said in retrospect Thank God he didn't accept my challenge. Big Al was the most colorful and talented Manager Trainer Cut Man and Promoter in the Industry.Braverman now operates out of an antique center in the Murray Hill section of Manhattan 31st street & 3rd Ave. and has booths in Hyde Park, N.Y.,and Southington, Vt. and does Brimfield and other select shows like the Indiana Antique Advertising show...His son Gary speaks about his Dad (rightly so) as one of the greatest Men in the Boxing Industry..Boxing was his complete Life..Antiques took a second Love But his antique dealer friends know He is a total character who stands no guff and is well loved by his fellow Antique dealers..Big Al unlike Boxing where because of the nature of his job..That of Kings 2nd in command is adored in the Antiques Business..In Boxing all the key figures and Journalists do not like him in the least because he takes no crap from anyone putting down or talking bad about the Man..Don King..If this takes place with you I suggest you look to step away if you see Big Al is not in his infectiously funny mood..You cannot make a mistake when looking at his face when he was serious, You find that you are scared to death of his outbursts temper or advice if it was not listened to. He is undoubtedley the last of the Damon Runyonesque Characters and can still drop a guy with 1 shot..He called Liston out in the Chuck Wepner Fight where Liston was quoted as saying that Braverman and not Wepner was the one to fear)..I saw him slap Foreman in the face in Foremans dressing room in Fla. at the Dino Dennis fight..Braverman had Dennis Big Al also put a 6ft 9" troblemaker quasi-gangster up against the wall in Scranton Pa dressing room after this monster pulled a gun on another of my Dads entourage..The Gun was never found and the Monster was taken out of the dressing room unconscious on a gurney.I was told by his closest friend that.Big Al flattened this guy with 1 shot to the jaw. .and would back up any wolf ticket he sold.Another words if you threatened to do some violence to Big Al there was violence Just not Big Als Face that was smashed just the menacing look Big Al gave was enough for most to get the picture..real quick''How I got into it,'' said Braverman,''goes back to the 1950's, when I worked fighters' corners. In those days I'd drive up to places like Holyoke, Mass., and Portland, Me.,getting there usually at midday. I'd be bringing in the fighters from New York, who fought the local talent. 'Anyway, promoters on that level didn't spend for hotel rooms, so we all had time to kill.I'd drop the fighters at a movie theater and tell them I'd pick 'em up at 5. For four, five hours I'd be antiquing. I'd grab the front money from the promoter and go looking for something to buy. Stick it in the trunk or tie it on top of the car, an old Franklin. I can remember coming back from the road, and lugging stuff up five flights to our apartment in the Bronx, The Pickwick Arms at 3224 Gr Concourse the same building that Carl and Bob Reiner lived in We were all close and directly across the street at 3035 Gr Concourse lived the entire Marshall clan Garry Marshall, Major film producer, and his sister Penny, who's the actress and director, and Bigwig in Films As it turned out the Reiners Carl and son Bob and the Marshalls moved out to the Coast where Bob Reiner married Penny Marshall. Pretty soon I had so much stuff I didn't have room for it in the apartment. I decided to open up an antique shop. The first place was up in the Bronx. under the El at Woodlawn Between burglaries and fires we didn't last long there.'' But some heavy hitters now were eager customers back in the 60s..Al had great taste for fighters and works of art and antiques..Al's son Gary and Mother Renee sister Cory and Gary's wife Nancy head up the antiques end now. Also during the 60s on Madison Ave on 67th street Braverman Galleries Sport in Art opened their doors at 23 East 67th street right next to Hirschl & Adler Galleries..Big Al Braverman..A Legend in Boxing and top entrepeneur in the Art and Antiques Business. Private Auctions Please note that as of September 1st 2006 all our e bay auctions will be Private. This measure is solely intended to protect you, our customers, from the rash of Phony e mail offers..Spoofs..and other Shenanigans by Fraudulent "SELLERS" with offers of similar or identical items. We believe that our bidders have a right to their privacy and not to be solicited by fraudulent entities. Please be assured that we will never disclose your e mail address to any other party. We appreciate your understanding in this matter. Please view my other Auctions where I've listed several other Fine Sporting Paintings by A Smith a well known WPA artist also FRESH TO MARKET Fine Antiques and Estate purchases ....Please click below anywhere on my Guarantee or on any of my pictures to be brought to my current auctions. 100% AUTHENTICITY GUARANTEE & LIMITED WARRANTY: Naruko fully guarantees the authenticity of the art work listed as we have described it. If a refund is requested for reasons of authenticity, the work of art must be returned within 30 days of your receiving it (10 days if based on condition only), in the same condition in which it was sold along with a signed written statement from a professionally recognized and qualified authority stating that the art work is not by the hand of the artist described and named in the auction.at the Buyers Risk Cost and Expense.....Paintings “attributed” to an artist, “in the manner of” and “circle of” are covered by the condition guarantee only.
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