Norman Rockwell 1894-1978

Franklin Mint, Pennsylvania

Laurie Norton Moffat, Norman Rockwell, A Definitive Catalogue, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986, vol I, p. 397, no. A357 

in good condition, generally; minor soiling to margins: scattered stains, smudges stray marks; image area is clean--a few minor smudges, its edges are slightly faded (perhaps from an old matting; sheet is hinged to backing with pieces of white linen tape, verso
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Executed in 1974, this drawing was one of several commissioned by the Franklin Mint for a lmited edition series of ingots based on the poems of Robert Frost.

An inscription (probably not in the artist's hand) depicts the scene in Frost's words:  AFTER APPLE-PICKING/ My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree/ Toward heaven still, /  And there's a barrel that I didn't fill