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Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)

Choosing Up (Four Sporting Boys: Baseball)--Study

Fermé22 May 2014

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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
16 x 13¾ in. (40.6 x 35 cm.), image; 19¼ x 17¾ in. (48.9 x 45.1 cm.)
Executed in 1949.

Private collection, Chicago, Illinois.
American Illustrators Gallery, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Note du spécialiste

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