Hockey Art (paintings, statues, murals, poems, lyrics, newspaper drawings, editorial cartoons, etc)

[BadgerBruce]

Newspapers used cartoon style art for a variety of reasons into the sixties. Tribute to Dorothy Pinard an NHL head office employee in Montreal.

Fabulous

 

[VanIslander]

 

[VanIslander]

This is a classic joke by one HHOFer about another HHOFer:

When the witty and long-retired Babe Pratt was asked back in the 1970s how many goals the great Cyclone Taylor would score if he played in today's NHL, he answered calmly, "Oh, about 20." The interviewer was dumbstruck and followed up, "But, Babe, Cyclone was the greatest player of his day! How can you say he'd score only 20 goals now?" Nonplussed, Pratt said, "Yes, but the man's 90 years old."

 

[Killion]

^^^ Yep, and others, one old timer (name escapes) when asked about Gretzky claimed "he'd have been thrown over the boards unconscious"..... also that Wolverine image above certainly works well. Very trippy.

 

[Canadiens1958]

For over 50 years, Terry Mosher has been the editorial cartoonist at first the Montreal Star, then the Gazette, appearing under the pen name Aislin he regularly produces sport themed cartoons, mainly baseball but a fair amount of hockey.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Mosher

A few of his more recent colour renderings follow.
Canadiens making the playoffs. 40th Anniversary of the Super Series, Red Fisher,

 

[Canadiens1958]

Some more Aislin. Beating the Bruins in the playoffs.

 

[Canadiens1958]

Maurice Richard Riot Anniversary

 

[Killion]

^^^ Gotta love Aislins' work. Sort of a cross between Edward Gorey & Charles Addams.

 

[BadgerBruce]

Aislin also created political cartoons -- somewhere I've got an Aislin collection that is 35-plus years old, and Pierre Trudeau is still Canada's Prime Minister (Aislin harpooned him and all politicians with obvious glee).

 

[BadgerBruce]

Here's one of my favourite Aislin creations (post Summit Series).

 

[Canadiens1958]

Some more Aislin in B&W from the McCord Museum Exhibition.

Then and know, fighting,

hockey fans, Don Cherry with a jab at his sidekick.

 

[BadgerBruce]

A 1969 magazine ad for Riviera slacks, featuring Derek Sanderson. Didn't he one tell a reporter that his pre-game meal consisted of "a steak and a blonde?" Guess he's just picking up some groceries here ..

 

[greyraven8]

LeRoy Neiman painting of Bobby Hull
(from Smithsonian Institution site)
http://collections.si.edu/search/tag/tagDoc.htm?recordID=npg_NPG.78.TC459&hlterm=hockey

 

[VanIslander]

 

[Killion]

View attachment 80885 A 1969 magazine ad for Riviera slacks, featuring Derek Sanderson. Didn't he one tell a reporter that his pre-game meal consisted of "a steak and a blonde?" Guess he's just picking up some groceries here ..

.... I remember that & knew the Krangle family who owned Riviera Slacks which was based in Toronto. Huge hockey fans..... did come out with some crazy/loud fabrications with their casual & golfwear.

 

[BadgerBruce]

Most people are familiar with the paintings of Ken Danby. Even if the name doesn't ring a bell, prints of the first two paintings hang in offices across Canada.

But the third painting has a neat story. In 1992, Ron Joyce, co-founder of the Tim Horton's chain, commissioned Danby to create a new image of Horton to hang in all of the franchises. Unfortunately, a dispute with Mrs. Horton led to the wholesale removal of the prints a few years later.

Joyce owns the original and loaned it to the Art Gallery of Hamilton in 2016 when they mounted a Ken Danby showing. I love the "3 Tims" Danby created in one painting.

 

[BadgerBruce]

Yes, John Wayne was in a hockey movie.

 

[greyraven8]

Here's an odd item from the Canadian Museum of History:
"The production and sale of this specially canned Maurice "Rocket" Richard soup followed the rioting of Montréal hockey fans on March 17, 1955. The riot was a reaction to the suspension of Richard by NHL President Clarence Campbell."

 

[VanIslander]

^^^^ Art, indeed, in the aftermath of Andy Warhol.

Speaking of Warhol, I remember I was graduating high school when he died, but I have no recollection of ever having known he had made Gretzky a subject of his artwork in 1984:

 

[Johnny Engine]

Wayne reportedly was disappointed that Wharhol "didn't get the Oilers' colours right" after seeing the portraits.
Not an art critic, our Wayne.

 

[Uncle Rotter]

Here's one of my favourite Aislin creations (post Summit Series).

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From this book:

 

[Uncle Rotter]

Some of the covers of the Jim Proudfoot annuals:

 

[Inkling]

 

[Uncle Rotter]

 

[Canadiens1958]

Montreal Canadiens program cover - Maurice Richard. Art by Tex Coulter, former CFL and NFL Great...