Choosing Up (Four Sporting Boys: Baseball)—Study

Details

NORMAN ROCKWELL (1894-1978)
Choosing Up (Four Sporting Boys: Baseball)—Study
signed and inscribed 'Best wishes to/Paul Helms,/cordially/Norman/Rockwell' (lower right)
pencil on paper
image, 16 x 13 ¾ in. (40.6 x 35 cm.);
sheet, 19 x 18 in. (48.3 x 45.7 cm.)
Executed in 1949.

Provenance

Private collection, Chicago, Illinois.
American Illustrators Gallery, New York.
Private collection, New York, acquired from the above.
Christie's, New York, 22 May 2014, lot 28, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Further details

A copy of an original letter from the artist accompanies this lot.

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Lot Essay

The present work is a study for the spring image in a 1951 Brown & Bigelow "Four Seasons" calendar (no. A125 in in L.N. Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue, vol. I, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986).

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