Norman Rockwell

signed Norman Rockwell (lower left)

image: 17 ¼ by 16 ¼ in.   43.8 by 41.3 cm.

sheet: 19 by 17 ⅞ in.   48.3 by 45.4 cm.

Kenneth Stuart, Norwalk, Connecticut (acquired circa 1950)

Brooklyn Museum (acquired as a gift from the above in 1971)

Acquired from the above in 2022 by the present owner

Columbus Gallery of Fine Art and Pennsylvania, Allentown Art Museum, Salute to Norman Rockwell, 1976-77, no. 31, n.p., illustrated

Fort Lauderdale Museum of the Arts; The Brooklyn Museum; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; San Antonio, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute; San Francisco, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum; Indianapolis Museum of Art; Omaha, Joslyn Art Museum and Seattle Art Museum, Norman Rockwell: A Sixty Year Retrospective, 1972, p. 95, illustrated in color and illustrated in color on the exhibition poster (with incorrect medium)

Brooklyn Museum, Masters of Color and Light: Homer, Sargent, and the American Watercolor Movement, 1998, no. 139, p. 191; p. 192, illustrated in color

The Saturday Evening Post, 4 September 1948, p. 10; illustrated in color on the cover

Thomas Buechner, Norman Rockwell: Artist & Illustrator, New York, 1970, no. 435, n.p., illustrated (on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post)

Donald R. Stolitz and Marshall L. Stoltz, Norman Rockwell and The Saturday Evening Post, Indianapolis, 1976, p. 77; n.p., illustrated in color (on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post)

Norman Rockwell, Rockwell on Rockwell: How I Make a Picture, New York, 1979, pp. 90, 120-21 and 158; p. 159, illustrated in color

Christopher Finch, Norman Rockwell’s America, New York, 1985, fig. 289, n.p., illustrated in color; p. 227 (1975 reprint)

Norman Rockwell, How I Make a Picture, New York, 1983, pp. 90, 120-21, 158; p. 159, illustrated in color

Laurie Norton Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue, vol. I, Stockbridge, Massachusetts,  1986, no. C444, p. 178, illustrated; p. 179 

Shelly Mehlman Dinhofer, The Art of Baseball, New York, 1990, no. 57, pp. 76-77, illustrated in color; p. 157

Jan Cohn, Covers of The Saturday Evening Post, Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration from America’s Favorite Magazine, New York, 1995, p. 209, illustrated in color (on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post) 

Academic American Encyclopedia, vol. 16, 1996, p. 261

Alvin L. Hall, ed., The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2000, p. 153

“The National Pastime: Baseball Covers,” The Saturday Evening Post: Special Collector’s Edition, vol. I, no. 1, Indianapolis, 2010, p. 108, illustrated in color (on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post)

George F. Will, A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred, New York, 2014, p. 12, p. 79, illustrated 

Stephen T. Haggerty, Norman Rockwell’s Models: In and Out of the Studio, Lanham, Maryland, 2023, pp. 126-27