John Kennedy 1976 HS

Year1976

Hand SignedLower Left in Pencil 

Condition Excellent 

Framed with PlexiglassGold and Brown Wood Frame w/ Double Mats 

Purchased fromPublisher 

Story / Additional InfoRockwell's portrait of President John F. Kennedy first appeared on the cover of the Post in 1960. The illustration would also mark the end of Rockwell's association with the Post, when it was republished on the magazine's cover in December 1963, as a memorial following Kennedy's assassination in November of the same year. In the early 1960s, having lost audience and advertisers to television, the Post attempted to capture readers from Life and Look by using portraits and photographs on their covers, and Rockwell was assigned to paint political figures and celebrities. Rockwell was sent to India, Cairo, and Yugoslavia to do portraits of Jawaharlal Nehru, Gamal Abdel-Nasser, and Josip Broz-Tito. Then in June 1963, he wrote to the Post stating new conditions for his assignments and concerns for his health that would limit his future work. According to his son Tom, "this was Pop's way of breaking-without-quite-breaking with the Post." 

Certificate of AuthenticityEleanor Ettinger Inc. 

Additional InformationSUPER SUPER 

LID161615

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.