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Bring your artwork to life with the texture and depth of a stretched canvas print.   Your image gets printed on one of our premium canvases and then stretched on a wooden frame of 1.5" x 1.5" stretcher bars (gallery wrap) or 5/8" x 5/8" stretcher bars (museum wrap).   All stretched canvases ship within 3 - 4 business days and arrive "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.

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Pixels Canvas Prints is one of the largest, most-respected giclee printing companies in the world with over 40 years of experience producing museum-quality prints.   All of our prints are produced on state-of-the-art, professional-grade Epson printers.   We use acid-free papers and canvases with archival inks to guarantee that your prints last a lifetime without fading or loss of color.

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Although many of America�s finest players had enlisted in the military for World War II. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt felt it would be beneficial for the country�s morale for professional baseball to continue uninterrupted. During this time, the game remained completely segregated, but knowledgeable people considered the overall quality of play to be superior in the, then called, �Negro Leagues� than the Major League. Negro League baseball averaged more than 50, 000 fans per game, and it wasn�t just black fans in the stands.

As the War came to a conclusion, economic considerations, political pressure and the excellent quality of Negro League baseball led Branch Rickey, then President and General Manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, to conclude the time was right for the integration of baseball. Rickey wanted the best black ballplayer in the country to begin the process. Failure of this �experiment,� he thought, could have long lasting, catastrophic consequence...

Gregory Perillo is one of today�s most respected and renowned American Western artists. His powerfully dramatic, emotional depictions of Native Americans and early settlers, as well as Western landscapes and wildlife, have made him one of America�s leading painters and sculptors. Born in Greenwich Village, Perillo moved to Staten Island, New York, at age two and has lived there his entire life. Poverty stricken as a boy, he was forced to use as canvases the paper bags ironed by his mother and his first medium was coffee. His earliest impressions of the American West came from his father, an immigrant, who was studying American History. As a youngster, Perillo studied the works of the masters of American Western art, spending much of...

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