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拍品 6
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
Study for 'A Time for Greatness'
已结束2016年3月23日
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USD 81,250
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The present work will be included as an addendum work in the Project Norman database created by the Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
The present work, a study for Norman Rockwell’s A Time for Greatness, is a rousing and dynamic portrait of one of America’s favorite presidents by one of America’s most beloved artists. Commissioned for the July 14th, 1964 issue of Look Magazine, A Time for Greatness depicts John F. Kennedy accepting the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination before a packed room of cheering supporters at the 1960 Democratic Convention. The waving state banners frame the scene and the predominantly red, white and blue palette underscores the patriotic subject. Rockwell likely enlarged the study at the center in order to extend the US flag.
Rockwell met Kennedy when he was commissioned by the Saturday Evening Post to paint the then senator’s portrait. He visited the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts in June 1960, a month before Kennedy was picked as the Democratic Party’s nominee at the convention. Published in Look almost nine months after Kennedy’s tragic death, A Time for Greatness both commemorates the beloved politician and provides solace to a mourning populace. The title comes from the slogan printed on Kennedy’s campaign posters which read: “A Time for Greatness: Kennedy for President.” The upper left corner of one of the posters can be seen in the foreground of the present work.
In addition to Kennedy, Rockwell painted the portraits of four other US presidents: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. A Time for Greatness is by far the most compelling and energetic of them, portraying the beloved president at the center of an adoring crowd. “In this painting, the presidency is not treated as something which separates the chief executive from other men; rather, it is seen as something which links him to them. Rockwell seems to remind us that the President owes his power to the people—to the democratic process.” (C. Finch, Norman Rockwell’s America, New York, 1975, p. 163)
A copy of the original July 14th, 1964 issue of Look Magazine accompanies this work.
The present work, a study for Norman Rockwell’s A Time for Greatness, is a rousing and dynamic portrait of one of America’s favorite presidents by one of America’s most beloved artists. Commissioned for the July 14th, 1964 issue of Look Magazine, A Time for Greatness depicts John F. Kennedy accepting the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination before a packed room of cheering supporters at the 1960 Democratic Convention. The waving state banners frame the scene and the predominantly red, white and blue palette underscores the patriotic subject. Rockwell likely enlarged the study at the center in order to extend the US flag.
Rockwell met Kennedy when he was commissioned by the Saturday Evening Post to paint the then senator’s portrait. He visited the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts in June 1960, a month before Kennedy was picked as the Democratic Party’s nominee at the convention. Published in Look almost nine months after Kennedy’s tragic death, A Time for Greatness both commemorates the beloved politician and provides solace to a mourning populace. The title comes from the slogan printed on Kennedy’s campaign posters which read: “A Time for Greatness: Kennedy for President.” The upper left corner of one of the posters can be seen in the foreground of the present work.
In addition to Kennedy, Rockwell painted the portraits of four other US presidents: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. A Time for Greatness is by far the most compelling and energetic of them, portraying the beloved president at the center of an adoring crowd. “In this painting, the presidency is not treated as something which separates the chief executive from other men; rather, it is seen as something which links him to them. Rockwell seems to remind us that the President owes his power to the people—to the democratic process.” (C. Finch, Norman Rockwell’s America, New York, 1975, p. 163)
A copy of the original July 14th, 1964 issue of Look Magazine accompanies this work.