NORMAN ROCKWELL (1894-1978)

Lot 26
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Lot 26 | NORMAN ROCKWELL (1894-1978)
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NORMAN ROCKWELL (1894-1978)

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.
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