LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

40.98 in. (104.10 cm.) (height) by 38.98 in. (99.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'Norman/Rockwell' (lower center)

Exhibited:

New York, Judy Goffman Fine Art, Norman Rockwell: An American Tradition, December 4, 1985-January 28, 1986, no. 36. Stockbridge, Massachusetts, The Norman Rockwell Museum, 2004, on loan. Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Rockwell and the Red Sox, April 5-June 19, 2005. Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Rockwell and the Shinjin: Celebrating Baseball and the Red Sox, April 8-September 22, 2008.

Literature:

The Saturday Evening Post, March 2, 1957, cover illustration. T. Buechner, Norman Rockwell: Artist & Illustrator, New York, 1970, n.p., no. 515, illustrated. C. Finch, Norman Rockwell's America, New York, 1975, p. 240, no. 305, illustrated (as The Locker Room). W. Twombly, 200 Years of Sport in America, New York, 1976, n.p., pl. 211, illustrated. B. Lowe, The Beauty of Sport: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1977, p. 86. F. Bauer, Norman Rockwell's Faith of America, New York, 1980, p. 74, illustrated. L.N. Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue, vol. I, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986, pp. 212-13, no. C482, illustrated (as Red Sox Locker Room). M. Kinzie, Baseball, New York, 1990, n.p., illustrated. S.M. Dinhofer, The Art of Baseball, New York, 1990, pp. 95, 157, no. 76, illustrated. J. Cohn, Covers of The Saturday Evening Post: Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration from America's Favorite Magazine, New York, 1995, p. 249, illustrated. K.A. Marling, Norman Rockwell, New York, 1997, p. 81, illustrated. M. McDermott, H. Eisenberg, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Cooperstown, Chicago, Illinois, 2003, n.p. J.B. Twitchell, Where Men Hide, New York, 2006, p. 124. W. Farina, Eliot Asinof and the Truth of the Game: A Critical Study of the Baseball Writings, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2012, pp. 27, 213. R. Humphries, Little League to the Major Leagues: A Complete Guide to Baseball's Assembly Line, Bloomington, Indiana, 2013, p. 260. C. Finch, Norman Rockwell: 332 Magazine Covers, New York, 2013, pp. 318, 396, illustrated.

Provenance:

Private collection, Midwest. Judy Goffman Fine Art/American Illustrators Gallery, New York, 1982. Mike Cluff Fine Art, Balboa, California. Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1986.