NewsWhore
03-25-2011, 05:40 PM
The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery is honoring star Dominican ballplayer Pedro Martinez with a painting that will be exhibited in the Recent Acquisitions hall as of 25 March. The Smithsonian says that Martinez, a US citizen since 2006, is remembered for the seven-year period when he established, in the words of baseball commentator Peter Gammons, "the most dominant stretch of any pitcher in baseball history."
Martinez is an eight-time All Star and a three-time Cy Young Award winner (1997, 1999 and 2000). He has pitched for five teams in his career, most recently with the Philadelphia Phillies. In addition, Martinez was a member of the World Series-winning Red Sox in 2004.
"We are thrilled to include this portrait of Pedro Martinez in the National Portrait Gallery's collection," said museum director Martin Sullivan. "Martinez is widely recognized as one of the great Major League Baseball pitchers who also is concerned for the well-being of his larger community."
The portrait was painted by Susan Miller-Havens in 2000 with oil and beeswax on Baltic birch, and measures 57 inches by 21 inches.
The portrait of Martinez is a gift to the museum from Gloria Trowbridge Gammons and Peter Warren Gammons in honor of Martinez, whose baseball career is paralleled by his lifelong work promoting educational opportunities for less fortunate children in the US and his own Dominican Republic.
The portrait will be exhibited in the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery that tells the history of America through the individuals who have shaped it. Through the visual arts, performing arts and new media, the Portrait Gallery portrays poets and presidents, visionaries and villains, actors and activists whose lives tell the American story.
http://newsdesk.si.edu/releases/national-portrait-gallery-presents-portrait-pedro-martinez
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#14)
Martinez is an eight-time All Star and a three-time Cy Young Award winner (1997, 1999 and 2000). He has pitched for five teams in his career, most recently with the Philadelphia Phillies. In addition, Martinez was a member of the World Series-winning Red Sox in 2004.
"We are thrilled to include this portrait of Pedro Martinez in the National Portrait Gallery's collection," said museum director Martin Sullivan. "Martinez is widely recognized as one of the great Major League Baseball pitchers who also is concerned for the well-being of his larger community."
The portrait was painted by Susan Miller-Havens in 2000 with oil and beeswax on Baltic birch, and measures 57 inches by 21 inches.
The portrait of Martinez is a gift to the museum from Gloria Trowbridge Gammons and Peter Warren Gammons in honor of Martinez, whose baseball career is paralleled by his lifelong work promoting educational opportunities for less fortunate children in the US and his own Dominican Republic.
The portrait will be exhibited in the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery that tells the history of America through the individuals who have shaped it. Through the visual arts, performing arts and new media, the Portrait Gallery portrays poets and presidents, visionaries and villains, actors and activists whose lives tell the American story.
http://newsdesk.si.edu/releases/national-portrait-gallery-presents-portrait-pedro-martinez
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#14)