Lot 2425: LEROY FOSTER [1925 - 93], 1975, 20" X 16", BLACK BASEBALL PLAYER

LEROY FOSTER [1925 - 93], 1975, 20" X 16", BLACK BASEBALL PLAYER: Player probably played for Chicago or Cleveland. Signed Foster and '75. Leroy Foster was an African American artist active in Detroit, a fine portrait painter [with many European clients] he was most well known in Detroit for public mural commissions, including "The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass" for the Frederick Douglass Branch of the Detroit Public Library; "Kaleidoscope" for the lobby of Southwest Detroit Hospital, and "Renaissance City," at the old Cass Tech [where in 1986 the picture was vandalized by ink splattering and restored by Foster.]