LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

42.99 in. (109.20 cm.) (height) by 40.98 in. (104.10 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed Norman Rockwell (lower center)

Exhibited:

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, The Fort Lauderdale Museum of the Arts; Brooklyn, New York, The Brooklyn Museum; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; San Antonio, Texas, Marion Koogler McNay Institute; San Francisco, California, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Art Center; Indianapolis, Indiana, Indianapolis Museum of Art; Omaha, Nebraska, Joslyn Art Museum; Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Norman Rockwell: A Sixty Year Retrospective, February 1972-April 1973, p. 107, illustrated in color on the cover; Atlanta, Georgia, High Museum of Art; Chicago, Illinois, Chicago Historical Society; Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art; San Diego, California, San Diego Museum of Art; Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix Museum of Art; Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Norman Rockwell Museum; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People, November 1999-February 2002, p. 195, illustrated in color p. 54; Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Norman Rockwell Museum (on extended loan)

Provenance:

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth J. Stuart, Sr., 1953 (gift from the artist); By descent to the present owners