ID 1182840
Lot 26 | NORMAN ROCKWELL (1894-1978)
Estimate value
$ 400 000 – 600 000
Portrait of John F. Kennedy
signed 'Norman/Rockwell' (lower right)
oil on canvas
23 x 17 ¾ in. (58.4 x 45.1 cm.)
Painted in 1963.
Provenance
The artist.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth J. Stuart, Sr., Norwalk, Connecticut, gift from the above.
American Illustrators Gallery, New York.
Private collection.
National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, Rhode Island.
Private collection, acquired from the above, 2015.
Surovek Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida, acquired from the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Literature
Saturday Evening Post, April 6, 1963, cover illustration.
T. Buechner, Norman Rockwell: Artist & Illustrator, New York, 1970, p. 579, illustrated.
C. Finch, Norman Rockwell's America, New York, 1975, p. 305, illustrated.
D. Stoltz, Norman Rockwell and the Saturday Evening Post - The Later Years, New York, 1976, pp. 209-10.
C. Finch, Norman Rockwell: 332 Magazine Covers, New York, 1979, pp. 345, 400, illustrated (as John F. Kennedy).
M. Moline, Norman Rockwell Encyclopedia: A Chronological Catalog of the Artist’s Work, 1910-1978, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1979, pp. 87, 206, no. 1-429, illustrated (as John F. Kennedy).
L.N. Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue, vol. I, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986, pp. 238-39, no. C509, illustrated.
J. Cohn, Covers of the Saturday Evening Post: Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration from America's Favorite Magazine, New York, 1995, p. 279, illustrated.
J.G. Cutler, L.S. Cutler, Norman Rockwell's America...in England, exhibition catalogue, Newport, Rhode Island, 2010, p. 207, illustrated.
Exhibited
Newport, Rhode Island, National Museum of American Illustration, Norman Rockwell's America, May 27-August 23, 2012, pp. 176-77, 253, illustrated.
| Artist: | Norman Rockwell (1894 - 1978) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Norman Rockwell (1894 - 1978) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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