Extra Good Boys And Girls 1976

Year1976

Hand SignedLower Left Numbered in Pencil By Artist, Lower Right Signed in Pencil By Artist 

Condition Excellent 

Framed with PlexiglassLinen Mat 

Provenance / HistoryThe artwork was purchased from a Norman Rockwell gallery in Monterey California by Steve & Jane DeCoit of Pleasanton, CA. They have/had a large collection. Steve gave me this print for services rendered. 

Story / Additional InfoExtra Good Boys and Girls manifests why "Norman Rockwell is generally credited with the invention of the modern American Christmas and the tender sentiments attached to it." (Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People, p. 155)rnrnThe present painting depicts a pensive St. Nick, clad in his signature red, reviewing his book of "Extra Good Boys & Girls" and planning his Christmas Eve route. A spin on the traditional gift laden Santa shimmying down a chimney or in his reindeer drawn sleigh, this work humanizes the holiday icon and recalls the earlier works such as Santa (fig. 8), the December 4, 1920 Postcover which depicts Santa going over his "Expense" book and Christmas (fig. 9), the December 4, 1926 Post cover, which depicts Santa with his "Good Boys" book eyeing a globe.rnrnIn Extra Good Boys and Girls Santa is portrayed in profile sitting on a ladder from his workshop and is customarily jolly with a ruddy complexion and large belly. He is methodically using the red pushpin-flags, which he holds in a white box on his lap, to attach a red ribbon to the map designating his path with destinations across the Pacific and throughout the Americas. The halo above his head denotes his beneficent character as does the ink quill tucked behind his ear, an angelic symbol. 

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Norman Rockwell - United States

Art Brokerage: Park West Artist: Norman Rockwell American Artist: b. 1894-1978. An enormously popular illustrator, American artist Norman Rockwell specialized in warm and humorous scenes of everyday small-town life. The cover of The Saturday Evening Post was Norman Rockwell's showcase for over forty years, giving him an audience larger than that of any other artist in history. Over the years he depicted there a unique collection of Americana, a series of vignettes of remarkable warmth and humor. In addition, Norman Rockwell painted a great number of pictures for story illustrations, advertising campaigns, posters, collotypes, calendars, and books. As Rockwell's personal contribution during World War II, Rockwell painted the famous "Four Freedoms" posters, symbolizing for millions the war aims as described by President Franklin Roosevelt. One version of Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Art Brokerage is one of the main secondary sources for Norman Rockwell lithographs, colloytypes, drawings and original oils on canvas. Please email us any for original paintings for sale. Please read Vanity Fair article November 2009...several major shows are touring this year. We are looking for drawings or original oils. The market is good for Rockwell if they are well priced.