I am pleased to offer this spectacular original artwork done by CF payne. Artwork was created for a coffee table book produced by Sports Illustrated in a series of books on sports from Baseball to Basketball to Football to Golf. The book is titled “Sports Illustrated – The College Football Book by the editors of Sports Illustrated.”

Size of Original Art – 18 inches by 62 ½ inches
Framed Size 22 5/8 inches by 67 ¼ inches
The book was published in 2008
The artwork is a mixed medium

Included in the image are:

Players and Coaches

Glenn Davis – Army
Jerry Rice – Mississippi Valley State
Chuck Bednarik – Penn
Red Grange – Illinois
Leon Hart – Notre Dame
Orlando Pace – Ohio State
Jim Brown – Syracuse University
Sammy Baugh – TCU
Knute Rockne – Notre Dame
John Hannah – Alabama
Pudge Heffelfinger – Yale
Ron Yary – USC
Charles Woodson – Michigan
Paul (Bear) Bryant – Alabama
Jack Hamm – Penn State
Lee Roy Selmon – Oklahoma
Kenny Easley – UCLA
Bubba Smith – Michigan State
Bonko Nagurski – Minnesota
Jim Thorpe – Carlisle
Hugh Greene – Pittsburh
Tommy Nobis – Texas
Deion Sanders – Florida State
Doak Walker – SMU
Lawernce Taylor – North Carolina
Gale Sayers – Kansas
Johnny Rogers – Nebraska

Among the collectors of his work are:

John Mellencamp
George Lucas
Steven Spielberg
John Lithgow
Jonathan Winters
Billy Gibbins of ZZ Top
John Travolta
Nathan Myhrvold of Microsoft
Andrew and Betsy Wyeth
Gene Simmons

His work has been exhibited at:

The Norman Rockwell Museum
The National Academy Museum
The National Portrait Gallery
The Cincinnati Art Museum
and other museums around the world.

His clients have included:

Time
Sports Illustrated
GQ
Esquire
Penthouse
Playboy
Rolling Stone
The New Yorker
Reader’s Digest

If you’ve been looking for that perfect piece of art to hang in your man cave, look no further. Imagine this artwork hanging over your fireplace – you’ve just found the perfect piece.

In 2001 C.F. Payne was featured in Walt Reed’s third edition of The Illustrator in America: 1860-2000. The recently updated publication represents 140 years of outstanding illustrators in America, and says of Payne: “A major contemporary talent, C.F. Payne has a wide-ranging ability to cover subjects seriously as well as irreverently. His natural inclination is to humor and caricature, but with a highly realistic rendition which makes his exaggeration convincingly real.” Payne is based in his hometown, Cincinnati, where he settled after sojourns to studios in Akron, Chicago, and Dallas. With a BFA from Miami University and post-graduate study with the famous Illustrators Group, composed of legends like Alan Cober, Mark English, Bernie Fuchs, Fred Otnes, and Bob Heindel, he launched a successful freelance career in 1980. His clients have included Time, Sports Illustrated, Boys’ Life, Mad, Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Esquire, Penthouse, Playboy, Yankee,
Rolling Stone, Money, The New Yorker, and regular features for Reader’s Digest.

Payne has received national recognition from Communication Arts, Step-by-Step Graphics, Print, How, the Society of Publication Designers, and the Societies of Illustrators in New York and Los Angeles, which have both awarded him numerous Gold and Silver medals. Recently his peers at the Society of Illustrators in New York honored him with the prestigious Hamilton King Award. He has exhibited in numerous galleries and was included, with five other illustrators, in a show at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Massachusetts, the National Academy Museum, New York as well as a one-man show at the Cincinnati Art Museum. His work was also shown as part of an exhibition of Times covers at the National Portrait Gallery, where he now has work in their permanent collection. His work has also been exhibited internationally at the the Gallery for the Cultural Forum for Photography, Berlin, the Museum fuer Angewandte Kunst, Hamburg, as well as museums in Austria,
Switzerland and Argentina.

In addition, Payne also juries various exhibitions, and lectures extensively. He taught at the college level for over ten years, and was recently appointed Chair of the Illustration Department at Columbus College of Art and Design. In 1996 he was President of the Art Directors Club of Cincinnati, and Chairman of the 38th Society of Illustrators Annual Competition. He has served as Museum Committee Chairman of the Society of Illustrators in New York. In addition, Payne is an active member of the Illustrators Partnership of America, and was on the founding board of the Illustrator’s Conference in Santa Fe.

Payne’s Children’s books include Casey at the Bat, Mighty Jackie, The Remarkable Farkle McBride, Micawber, Shoeless Joe & Black Betsy, True Heart, Pop’s Bridge, and The Shot Heard Round the World, Late For School, Hide and Sweak and The Line-up For Yesterday.

In 1999 he completed a mural project for Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. The mural is 14 feet at its highest point, and about 95 feet wide. It features many playwrights and actors whose works have been featured at the playhouse. Payne currently resides in Cincinnati with his wife Paula and sons Trevor and Evan.

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