Artist baseball trading cards
name: label: Creator
content: Celender, Don, 1931-2005
label: Creator
content: Mandel, Mike
topic: label: Occupation
content: Conceptual artists -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
label: Occupation
content: Photographers -- California -- Los Angeles
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated in 2022 by Harriet Siden.
creator: label: Creator
content: Celender, Don, 1931-2005
label: Creator
content: Mandel, Mike
setName: label: See more items in
content: Artist baseball trading cards
abstract: label: Summary
content: Artist baseball trading cards include five sets of Artball cards created by artist Don Celender in 1971, featuring artists, gallery owners and other art related figures.  Each set includes 20 cards and the front of each card features an artist's face that is superimposed onto a baseball player's face. Each card also includes a team name and player position. The verso features a work of art associated with the particular artist. Each set is enclosed in its own trading card box labeled "Artball" with set number.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Don Celender (1931-2005) was a conceptual artist in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1971, he created Artball trading cards. Mike Mandel (1950- ) is a photographer in Los Angeles, California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1971, 1975
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.artball
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into one series.

Series 1: Artist Baseball Trading Cards, 1971, 1975 (0.2 linear feet; Box 1)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed, and a finding aid prepared by Ricky Gomez in 2022.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Artist baseball trading cards include five sets of Artball cards created by artist Don Celender in 1971, featuring artists, gallery owners and other art related figures.  Each set includes 20 cards and the front of each card features an artist's face that is superimposed onto a baseball player's face. Each card also includes a team name and player position. The verso features a work of art associated with the particular artist. Each set is enclosed in its own trading card box labeled "Artball" with set number.

Set one features Josef Albers, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Robert Morris, Richard Pousette-Dart, Franz Kline, Jean Dubuffet, Georges Roualt, Leo Castelli, Isamu Noguchi, Anthony Caro, Vincent van Gogh, Marisol, Gerald Clarke, Bernhard Berenson, Albert P. Ryder, Fernand Leger, Horace Pippin and Paul Jenkins. Set two features Helen Frankenthaler, George Luks, Hans Hofmann, Georges Braque, Victor Vasarely, Marc Chagall, Martha Jackson, Henry Moore, Richard Lippold, Raoul Dufy, Alfred H. Barr Jr., David Smith, Bradley Walker Tomlin, Georgia O'Keeffe, Pavel Tchelitchew, Grandma Moses, Arthur B. Davies, Albert Alexander Smith, Tony Smith, Allan Appel, J. Carter Brown. Set three features Robert Rauschenberg, William Glackens, Tom Wesselmann, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Thomas Hart Benton, Édouard Manet, Henri Matisse, Adolph Gottlieb, Wassily Kandinsky, Yves Tanguy, Ivan Karp, Donald Judd, Larry Rivers, Thomas Eakins, Willem de Kooning, George Segal, Grace Hartigan, Jackson Pollock, Robert Henri and John Marin. Set four features John Chamberlain, Henri Rousseau, Hans Hartung, Ibram Lassaw, Ozenfant, John Goodrich, Hilton Kramer, Ray Johnson, Roy Lichtenstein, Jacques Lipchitz, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Peggy Guggenheim, Bridget Riley, Matta, Rufino Tamayo, Piet Mondrian, Andrew Wyeth, Everett Shinn and Richard Lindner. The fifth and final set featuresJasper Johns, Piet Mondrian, Dan Flavin, Thomas B. Hess, Mark Rothko, Pablo Picasso, Patrick Caulfield, Claes Oldenburg, Alexander Liberman, Alexander Calder, Andy Warhol, Ossip Zadkine, Pierre Soulages, Charles Burchfield, Clyfford Still, Allan Kaprow, Sidney Janis, Dorothy C. Miller and Sam Francis.

Also included is a set of 10 artist baseball cards created by photographer Mike Mandel in 1975. Artists photographed as baseball players include Harold Allen, Manuel Bravo, Pete Bunnell, Don Drowty, Betty Hahn, Gary Metz, Joel Meyerowitz, Beaumont Newhall, Eve Sonneman, and Paul Vanderbilt.