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Time for another Hall of Names installment. This is a good Hot Stove activity... and something quick for me to post from work. :)


This time we're going for famous names from the visual arts (drawing, painting, sculpture, even photography, but not architecture) - last names of famous artists only please! Please tell us the naqme of the artist you're thinking of, because not everyone here (including me) is an art buff. I will start us off with just two entries...

OF Tuck Turner, a onetime phenom who hit .416 in 1894. (Painter J.M.W. Turner)

P Ollie Klee, a cup of coffee man in 1925. (Painter Paul Klee)
Posted by Craig B on Monday, November 10 2003 @ 05:51 AM EST.
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_Andrew Edwards - Monday, November 10 2003 @ 06:55 PM EST (#86254) #
Posting them as I get them...

There are lots of Raphaels. Furcal for instance.
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_Andrew Edwards - Monday, November 10 2003 @ 06:57 PM EST (#86255) #
Mudcat Grant for this Grant.
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_Andrew Edwards - Monday, November 10 2003 @ 07:01 PM EST (#86256) #
Also in Bloomsbury, Bell is too easy.
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Coach - Monday, November 10 2003 @ 07:04 PM EST (#86257) #
A little Canadian content:

OF "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, lifetime .356 hitter (Group of Seven painter A.Y. Jackson)

P John Thomson, FA and potential Blue Jay (Group of Seven painter Tom Thomson)

P Rob MacDonald, 1987 Blue Jays draftee (Group of Seven painter J.E.H. MacDonald)

Mgr. Bucky Harris, Hall of Famer (Group of Seven painter Lawren Harris)

Just wondering, is Mike Colangelo eligible?
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_Andrew Edwards - Monday, November 10 2003 @ 07:10 PM EST (#86258) #
Limiting myself, by the way, to artists I've ever heard of, rather than just Googling, e.g., "painters American famous".

There was a ballplayer named Bosch, after this one.
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_Andrew Edwards - Monday, November 10 2003 @ 07:11 PM EST (#86259) #
Good ones, Coach.
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_Andrew Edwards - Monday, November 10 2003 @ 07:16 PM EST (#86260) #
I'm calling 'close enough' on Hall of Famer Tim Keefe and Georgia O'Keeffe
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_Scott Lucas - Monday, November 10 2003 @ 08:42 PM EST (#86261) #
Close enough... Bobby del Greco and El Greco

Willie Everett Smith got a cup of coffee with the Cards in '94, while W. Eugene Smith was an acclaimed photojournalist.
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Mike Green - Monday, November 10 2003 @ 09:02 PM EST (#86262) #
Babe Adams-P for Ansel Adams. Russ has got a shot at this one.
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Mike Green - Monday, November 10 2003 @ 09:04 PM EST (#86263) #
Scott, if you're looking for baseball Smiths, you could take Ozzie or Reggie and do pretty well.
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_Scott Lucas - Monday, November 10 2003 @ 09:11 PM EST (#86264) #
I wanted the initials to match.
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_Ryan Day - Monday, November 10 2003 @ 09:15 PM EST (#86265) #
My comic book artist geek-fest:

Utility OF Wayne Kirby (Jack Kirby: creator of just about everything)

P Tommy Byrne, an All-Star in 1950 with a 4.74 ERA (John Byrne: X-Men, Fantastic Four, Superman)

SS Eddie Miller, 7-time all-star (Frank Miller: Dark Knight, Daredevil, Sin City)

Orioles OF/DH Jay Gibbons (Dave Gibbons: Watchmen)

P Ace Adams, 1943 All-Star (Neal Adams: X-Men, Green Lantern)

SS Ed McKean, career .302 BA in late-1800's (Dave McKean: Sandman, Mr. Punch)

OF Beau Allred, 125 at-bats in 1991 with a .359 OBP (Mike Allred: Madman, X-Force)
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_Ryan - Monday, November 10 2003 @ 09:22 PM EST (#86266) #
If only there had once been a major leaguer named Sarnoff. Then I would be able to honour Arthur Sarnoff, the creator of this materpiece.
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Dave Till - Tuesday, November 11 2003 @ 08:05 AM EST (#86267) #
The closest match I could think of was Roy Lichtenstein and Chuck Hartenstein. Yeah, it's early in the morning. :-)
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_Sean - Tuesday, November 11 2003 @ 08:11 AM EST (#86268) #
In a comic book vein, how about Stan Lee (Spider Man, Hulk, etc) and Bill "Spaceman" Lee.
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_Ryan Day - Tuesday, November 11 2003 @ 08:42 AM EST (#86269) #
Stan Lee was only a writer, not an artist. You could do Jim Lee (X-Men, Batman), though. (thought about it, decided it was too easy)
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Mike Green - Tuesday, November 11 2003 @ 09:28 AM EST (#86270) #
Some other possibilities: Emily Carr- Chuck Carr; Diego Rivera-Luis Rivera. For Coach's Group of Seven artists, Reggie Jackson and Bobby Thomson ("the shot heard round the world") are also possibles.
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_snellville jone - Tuesday, November 11 2003 @ 10:56 AM EST (#86271) #
Roberto "Francesco" Clemente would start on my team.
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_snellville jone - Tuesday, November 11 2003 @ 11:05 AM EST (#86272) #
Cy "Young" Twombly, also.
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Mike Green - Tuesday, November 11 2003 @ 11:57 AM EST (#86273) #
Snellville, Francisco Clemente's "Map of What is Effortless" title did put me in mind of Roberto's throwing arm. Cheers.
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_Jordan - Wednesday, November 12 2003 @ 02:45 PM EST (#86274) #
Have you all forgotten Manet Ramirez?
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