Four Sporting Boys: Basketball

Year2012

Estate SignedSigned in the Plate With the Artist's Estate Authorized Facsimile Signature 

Condition Excellent - In original packing 

Framed with GlassWood 

Story / Additional InfoThis image originated as a Four Seasons Calendar in 1951 and was one of 17 yearly Four Seasons calendars Rockwell designed for Brown and Bigelow Company of St. Paul, Minnesota from 1948-1964. Each quarterly scene depicted a favorite seasonal activity. 

Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage 

LID142682

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.