Painting

[Dub]

While dining at Seasons in Morton this week I was seated near a Bradley related original painting. For you art critics out there who are also BU fans, what are your thoughts about what the artist is saying here?


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[Da Coach]

That's nice. I'll have to get over there and see it in person.
How large is the painting? Do you know who the artist is? Or is it marked for sale?

 

[molar50]

The image appears not very clear on my phone or desktop monitor. About 40% of the painting is a young Joe Stowell with an unidentified Bradley player to the right. The top left 30% shows the old Fieldhouse with fans outside. The remaining lower left is a Bradley player #21 guarding an opposing player with the ball in the left hand. It looks like Duke #2, but maybe it’s supposed to be Drake. I remember that Bradley played at Duke when Geno Ford was the “coach” and Bradley is wearing the typical visitor uniforms and it appears like a home Duke uniform. The shorts on both player’s uniforms are long indicating they played after 1990. I need to see it in person to have an opinion. If it’s a Duke player, I don’t like it and I don’t want anything to remind me of Geno’s time here. That was and remains too painful.

 

[houstonbrave]

The 2010-11 season was the year we played Duke at Cameron indoor. That was Jim Les’s final,season as coach. Walt Lemon’s freshman year and he was our leading scorer as we were killed in a year when we unexpectedly lost Sam Maniscalco and Taylor Brown for the full year. We still would have lost but it would have been less gruesome

 

[molar50]

Thanks. I forgot that game was in Les’ final year. I do remember that Brown and Maniscalco didn’t play, but Bradley upset Creighton near the end of the regular season in the Civic Center with a snow blizzard in the afternoon. Glasser fired Les after the season. I still have negative thoughts about that time.

 

[Da Coach]

The Bradley player on the left side of that painting is Walt Lemon, wearing #25. He is guarding the Duke point guard, Nolan Smith, #2.
You can see it better on this enlarged image-
https://ibb.co/gTzkg0k

Here is the box score from the game 12/8/2010-
https://goduke.com/news/2010/12/8/205044595.aspx

Duke beat shorthanded Bradley 83-48, but freshman Walt Lemon had a pretty good game. He scored a team-high 14 points, and he held Duke's point guard, Nolan Smith, to 0-8 from the floor and just 2 points on 2-4 from the FT line.
The person to the right of the large Joe Stowell image appears to have a radio headphone and a red Bradley pullover on. I think it is supposed to be Joe Stowell during his years as a radio analyst.

 

[Dub]

That's nice. I'll have to get over there and see it in person.
How large is the painting? Do you know who the artist is? Or is it marked for sale?

I’d say the art is about 36-48” wide… fairly good sized. On the left is definitely Walt. On the far right I’m not so sure… wondered if it might be AJ Robertson or one of the other very early giants.

If celebrating Bradley, I was surprised by the decision to feature a Duke player so prominently, and a scene from such a blowout loss. I began to wonder… Is the scene meant to portray a proud moment or was it perhaps to show how far the program had actually fallen from the glory days at that time? Maybe not the latter since this was still in the PGE (pre Geno era).