Norman Rockwell
1894 - 1978
BOY PLAYING FLUTE SURROUNDED BY ANIMALS (SPRINGTIME)
Palm Beach Galleries, Palm Beach, Florida
Jack and Bonita Granville Wrather, California, 1970s (acquired from the above)
By descent to the present owner
The Saturday Evening Post, April 16, 1927, cover illustration (©SEPS licensed by Curtis Licensing, Indianapolis, IN. All rights reserved)
Thomas Buechner, Norman Rockwell: Artist & Illustrator, New York, 1970, no. 226, illustrated p. 100
Christopher Finch, Norman Rockwell's America, New York, 1975, illustrated p. 280
Dr. Donald Stoltz and Marshall L. Stoltz, Norman Rockwell and ‘The Saturday Evening Post:' The Later Years, New York, 1976, p. 193, illustrated p. 194
Christopher Finch, Norman Rockwell: 332 Magazine Covers, New York, 1979, pp. 165, 182
Mary Moline, Norman Rockwell Encyclopedia: A Chronological Catalogue of the Artist’s Work, 1910-1978, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1979, illustrated fig. 1-205, p. 48
Laurie Norton Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986, no. C285, p. 107, illustrated p. 106
Jan Cohn, Covers of ‘The Saturday Evening Post:’ Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration from America’s Favorite Magazine, New York, 1995, illustrated p. 119
The Saturday Evening Post Special Collector’s Edition, vol. I, no. 1, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2010, illustrated p. 27