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The Sports Artwork Forum

James was recently featured on the Sports Artwork Forum blog. The entry highlighted a Willie Mays painting and other information on James. > Read the sports art blog entry.

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Illustrators 51

Society of Illustrator's annual competition which recognizes the highest standard in every category of illustration. James' "Black Vulture" was selected to be shown in the Museum of American Illustration and will be presented in Illustrators 51, an annual book highlighting the winners. The show that will display James' work will be held March 3 - 28, 2009. For more information, please visit: SocietyIllustrators.org.

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Prominent New Jersey sports illustrator goes to bat for Operation Shoebox New Jersey

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Rod Hirsch, founder/executive director
Operation Shoebox New Jersey
(908) 698-0333
opshbxnj@yahoo.com

Renowned sports illustrator James Fiorentino, whose portraits of America’s professional athletes are as legendary as the ballplayers’ exploits, will be guest of honor at the Second annual Wine Tasting fund raiser hosted by Operation Shoebox New Jersey at The Wine Room in Bound Brook, N.J. on Feb. 28.

Fiorentino has donated three limited-edition lithographs that will be auctioned during the evening – “Life of a Legend,” a poster-size collage of Mickey Mantle; “A Night in the Bronx,” a 16-by-20 inch panoramic view of the old Yankee Stadium and “The Captain,” a 16-by-20 inch image of New York Yankees captain Derek Jeter swinging at a pitch in the batter’s box with New York Mets’ catcher Mike Piazza behind the plate.

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Pepper Davis "Dirt in the Skirt"

James has created this new painting for Pepper's book "Dirt in the Skirt" which will be released this spring. Limited edition giclees signed by Pepper and James are available now.

Pepper's Bio:
Lavone “Pepper” Paire Davis was born in May 1924 in California. She attended the University High School in West Los Angeles. From the very beginning “Pepper” had a couple of passions in her life…..Baseball and writing. Front the time she was old enough to work, she played ball with her Big Bro Joe and from the time she was old enough to talk, wrote Poems and songs in her head, then wrote them down when old enough to write. Pepper grew up during the 1930’s depression, playing softball three nights a week, bringing home gas money and food from her sponsors. Baseball became a way of life for her, something similar to breathing.

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