Lest we forget: Harvey Dinnerstein

July 11, 2022

Dead at 94.

His portrait of Joe DiMaggio has appeared in numerous books about baseball art, including the cover of

9780877014683: Diamonds Are Forever: Artists and Writers on Baseball - AbeBooks - Gordon, Peter H.: 087701468X

From The New York Times obituary by Richard Sandomir

…Mr. Dinnerstein largely depicted the life around him: on the subway, in parks, outside brownstones like his own in Brooklyn. In a rare foray into portraying a celebrity, Mr. Dinnerstein was commissioned by Sports Illustrated in 1974 to paint the Yankee Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio in what became a widely published image of him in his familiar wide stance, just after hitting the ball.

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