Lot Essay
Father and Boy: Rocket Ship is a study for the painting of the same name which was the illustration for the Winter, 1961 season of the 'Four Seasons Calendar', published by Brown & Bigelow.
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Father and Boy: Rocket Ship
Details
NORMAN ROCKWELL (1894-1978)
Father and Boy: Rocket Ship
signed 'Norman Rockwell' (lower right)--dated '1961' (lower center) and inscribed 'Winter' (upper center)
graphite on board
22 x 20 in. (55.9 x 50.8 cm.)
Father and Boy: Rocket Ship
signed 'Norman Rockwell' (lower right)--dated '1961' (lower center) and inscribed 'Winter' (upper center)
graphite on board
22 x 20 in. (55.9 x 50.8 cm.)
Provenance
The artist.
Dr. and Mrs. H.J. Wheelwright.
Judy and Alan Goffman Fine Art, New York.
Private collection, Dallas, Texas.
Sotheby's, 12 April 1991, lot 144, illustrated.
Dr. and Mrs. H.J. Wheelwright.
Judy and Alan Goffman Fine Art, New York.
Private collection, Dallas, Texas.
Sotheby's, 12 April 1991, lot 144, illustrated.
Literature
Laurie Norton Moffatt, Norman Rockwell, A Definitive Catalogue, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986, Vol. I, no. A164a, p. 330, illustrated