Dick Perez
American painter
Dick Perez (born 1940) is an American artist known for his baseball paintings for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and the Philadelphia Phillies. He is also known for his paintings for various baseball card series. Perez's 2010 book The Immortals: An Art Collection of Baseball's Best, offers a visual history of the then-292 members of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Overview
He is a native of San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico. He moved to New York City at age six and to Philadelphia at age sixteen where he studied at the Philadelphia College of Art and the University of Pennsylvania.
Perez's art was on exhibit at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia in 2004. It was the only one-man show dedicated to sports art at that institution. There is now a permanent exhibit of the 33 paintings (the original 32 plus an additional one of Pat Gillick, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2011) in the Hall of Fame section at Citizens Bank Park.
He has been the official artist for the Philadelphia Phillies since 1982 and was the official artist for the Major League Hall of Fame for twenty-five years. Starting in 1982, Perez painted a yearly set of cards for the "Diamond Kings" series for the Donruss Trading Card Co.
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