acrylic on synthetic material, diametre: 3 in (7.6 cm)
unsigned.

LOT 49
ESTIMATE: $300 — $500

In the late 1980s, McMaster endeavoured on series called 'Eclectic Baseball,' wherein McMaster freely mixed traditional Plains symbols with contemporary baseball equipment.

In an undated interview with Larry Abbott, McMaster discussed the show, explaining,
" [...] I was into sports and I combined that with my interest in art, and the show came up by accident. [...] I knew what baseball was all about, but I went to really study games and I began to see the sport quite differently. And as I was creating the show I began to incorporate some ideas of baseball and Native culture for some reason. I don't know how I did it, it just began to happen. I began to see the peculiarity of integrating the two. I started to see things and make connections and it sort of brought out this strategy for humor that I felt that Native people had. I played baseball on reserves it was always lots of fun with lots of humor involved. So I wanted to integrate humor and baseball and Native culture and Native involvement and it began to work. Then all of a sudden it come out and I was creating this and that. I had a really interesting two months in settling down and creating and I think that at that time I also began to work on the idea of humor as a strategy. The humor and irony in "Eclectic Baseball" sort of translated to the next show, The cowboy/Indian Show [1]."

1. Gerald McMaster, Interviewed by Larry Abbott, "Time of Visions: Interview by Larry Abbot / Gerald McMaster," http://dev.cushing.org/abbott/gmcmaster.htm, n.d..