Fenway Park, part 1

Boston, MA

Located in Boston Massachusetts is where you will find this week’s subject, the home of the 2004 World Champion Boston Red Sox.

Since 1912, this beautiful old park has been home to some of the most exciting and heart wrenching games any baseball fan could endure. Its grounds have been graced by many Hall of Famers including such Red Sox notables as Bobby Doer, Joe Cronin, Carl Yastremski, Ted Williams and Carlton Fisk.

Considered one of the world’s most famous sporting venues, Fenway is perhaps best known for both its right and left field foul poles as well as supporting architecture. In left field, only 310 feet from home plate is what is known as the “Green Monster.” This structure stands 31 feet high and is 231 feet long, it’s also now home to some of the coolest seats in the park. Down the right field line, is what is known as the “Pesky Pole”. The Pesky Pole is named after sox great Johnny Pesky and is only 302 feet from home plate, very enticing to hitters on either bench.

The day we were at the park it was late September...the Red Sox were still battling for the American Eastern Division title and they were playing the Toronto Blue Jays. We had tried to attend a few games earlier in the month but the weather kept working against us and quite frankly, I’m glad we waited as long as we did, because as soon as the sun began to set and twighlight arrived, I turned to my canvas and started to paint. It was perfect, and it also provided me with a great opportunity to share with you how I approached one of the greatest architectural challenges I’ve ever tried to paint.

(Continues next week in part 2.)

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