Since offering an original Lou Gehrig portrait by renowned baseball artist Graig Kreindler in the summer of 2015 his popularity has only increased as has demand for his original work. A graduate of New York City School of Visual Arts with a Masters in Art Education from Lehman College in the Bronx NY his work has been featured in juried art shows and museums nationwide with pieces displayed at numerous public art spaces including the Bob Feller Museum and the Yogi Berra Museum. He has received significant press coverage and has recently been profiled in the New York Times the Wall Street Journal and Fox News. One of today's most in-demand and top-selling sports artists Kreindler has taken his place among the best-recognized names in baseball art. Perhaps the best illustrator of his popularity is not the publicity and adulation he receives but the very small number of Kreindler works that have made their way into the hobby via resale: the majority of Kreindler's work is commissioned privately by his clients and once the work is finished the owner generally keeps it. Indeed we are aware of only three other Kreindler pieces to have ever made it to public auction and Love of the Game is the only auction house to have handled the sale of more than one. Since Kreindler does not make prints of his work available for sale the only way to own one is to own an original piece the overwhelming majority of which are private commissions purchased directly from the artist. Invariably due to the intense demand for his work and its limited availability there has been a remarkable appreciation in value for his original pieces. Along with many others in the hobby we have been longtime admirers of Kreindler's art due not only to his stunning ability to capture the emotion and tension of the game in the expressions of his subjects but due to his unflagging attention to detail. The artist has been known to study weather accounts and stadium maps in order to best convey the way the sunlight fell on the ballfield at the precise time a photo he's re-creating was taken; his diligence has taken him far and wide to study historical accounts and photos to more perfectly convey uniform colors the colors throughout the stadium even the tones of the advertisements scattered throughout the stadium. Such is the case with this work "Winter's Bane." Composed from a 1909 George Grantham Bain photo the 9" x 12" oil on linen painting was originally completed by Kreindler for a private client in 2010. In that painting Kreindler'