Portrait of Gene Clines
Portrait of Gene Clines
Portrait of Gene Clines

Portrait of Gene Clines

Object number2008.152.13
Artist (1915 - 1991)
Date1970-1974
Mediumpaper; ink
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Henry Koerner
DescriptionBlack ink pen drawing of Pittsburgh Pirates player Gene Clines.Dimensions15.875 x 20.75 in. (40.3 x 52.7 cm)
InscriptionsBehind player, in proper right background, jersey with text "PIRATES / 15".
MarksHandwritten in pencil on back: "GENE / CLINES"; and again in blue ink.
Historical NotesDrawing of Gene Clines, outfielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates in the early 1970s. Part of a collection of sixteen pen and ink drawings of Pittsburgh Pirates, by Henry Koerner. Henry Koerner was a Vienna-born painter whose portraits of celebrities like Maria Callas and John F. Kennedy appeared on the cover of Time magazine. He was considered a master of Magic Realism, whose works are in the permanent collection of several museums, such as the National Portrait Gallery and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He started out as a commercial artist in Brooklyn. He emigrated to the United States in 1938. Throughout much of WWII, he designed posters for the Office of War Information and the Office of Strategic Services. He was sent to Germany after the war to sketch the Nuremberg trials for the American Military Government. Koerner visited Vienna and learned that his mother, father, and brother died in a concentration camp. Koerner moved to Pittsburgh in 1952 and taught at Chatham College and the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. He was hit by a car while bicycling with his wife and died while in Vienna in 1991.
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