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Man Painting Flagpole (Gilding The Eagle) by Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell

Man Painting Flagpole (Gilding The Eagle), 1928

Oil on canvas
68.6 x 53.3 cm (27.01 x 20.98 in)
Paintings
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Last recorded sale at Sotheby's, New York (21 May 2014)
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
May 21, 2014
Sotheby'sNew YorkAmerican Art16
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Man Painting Flagpole (Gilding The Eagle)
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Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

68.6 x 53.3 cm (27.01 x 20.98 in)

Materials

oil on canvas

Signature

signed Norman Rockwell (lower right)

Provenance

Private Collection, Connecticut, circa 1928

By descent to the present owner (their daughter)

Exhibited

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, The Fort Lauderdale Museum of the Arts; Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn Museum; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; San Antonio, Texas, Marion Koogler McNay Institute; San Francisco, California, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Art Center; Indianapolis, Indiana, Indianapolis Museum of Art; Omaha, Nebraska, Joslyn Art Museum; Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Norman Rockwell: A Sixty Year Retrospective, February 1972-April 1973, illustrated in color p. 49

Literature

The Saturday Evening Post, May 26, 1928, illustrated in color on the cover, ©SEPS. Licensed by Curtis Licensing. All Rights Reserved.; Norman Rockwell, The Norman Rockwell Album, Garden City, New York, 1961, p. 36, illustrated; Thomas Buechner, Norman Rockwell: Artist & Illustrator, New York, 1970, illustrated fig. 196, p. 106; Christopher Finch, Norman Rockwell’s America, New York, 1975, no. 266, p. 207, illustrated in color p. 208; Mary Moline, Norman Rockwell Encyclopedia: A Chronological Catalogue of the Artist’s Work 1910-1978, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1979, illustrated fig. 1-215, p. 50; Dr. Donald Stoltz and Marshall L. Stoltz, Norman Rockwell and ‘The Saturday Evening Post:' 1916-1928, New York, 1976, vol. I, p. 213, illustrated in color p. 214; Susan E. Meyer, Norman Rockwell’s People, New York, 1981, p. 53, illustrated; Laurie Norton Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986, vol. I, no. C295, p.110-111, illustrated; Jan Cohn, Covers of “The Saturday Evening Post:" Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration from America’s Favorite Magazine, New York, 1995, illustrated in color p. 122; Judy Goffman Cutler and Laurence S. Cutler, Norman Rockwell’s America in England, Newport, Rhode Island, 2010, illustrated in color p. 176