John Collins – Moonlight Graham No. 101, 2024

John CollinsMoonlight Graham No. 101, 2024Sumi and acrylic inks on 300 lb Arches hot press paper.6.25 x 9.5 inchesSigned on the backWinning Team: San Francisco GiantsFeatured Player: Logan Webb#JC.15298Collins’s Moonlight Graham series are devotionals to baseball. Imagining his identity as 'Moonlight Graham,' a newspaper comic illustrator, Collins highlights a play or story of interest every day from within the baseball world. He creates these works on a fictional deadline because within this fantasy, his drawing would appear in the next morning’s sports section next to the baseball scores and standings. The name Moonlight Graham reverberates with multiple meanings. It was descriptive of his own creative act of moonlighting--these were created at night after working on his studio paintings or handyman jobs. It is also a pun on social media: Moonlight (nightly) and Graham (Instagram). Lastly, as a nod to baseball fans, the name is recognizable as the name of a baseball player in the ear