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He's Going To Be Taller Than Dad by Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell

He's Going To Be Taller Than Dad, 1939

Oil on canvas
66 x 48.3 cm (25.98 x 19.02 in)
Paintings
Unique artwork
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Last recorded sale at Sotheby's, New York (22 May 2013)
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
May 22, 2013
Sotheby'sNew YorkAmerican Art19
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He's Going To Be Taller Than Dad
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Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

66 x 48.3 cm (25.98 x 19.02 in)

Materials

oil on canvas

Signature

signed Norman Rockwell (lower right)

Provenance

The Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1939 (commissioned from the artist)

Acquired by the present owner, 2003

Exhibited

Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Norman Rockwell Museum, The Picture of Health: Norman Rockwell Paintings, November 2003-May 2004, p. 13, illustrated in color p. 12 Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Norman Rockwell Museum; Old Lyme, Connecticut, Florence Griswold Museum; Kalamazoo, Michigan, Kalamazoo Institute of Art; Mobile, Alabama, Mobile Museum of Art; Fredericksburg, Virginia, Gari Melchers Home and Studio; El Paso, Texas, El Paso Museum of Art; Sandwich, Massachusetts, Heritage Museum and Gardens, Picturing Health: Norman Rockwell and the Art of Illustration, January 2007-September 2012 Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Norman Rockwell Museum, June 2010-September 2011, February-April 2012 (on loan)

Literature

Print Advertisement, The Upjohn Company, 1939; Mary Moline, Norman Rockwell Encyclopedia: A Chronological Catalog of the Artist's Work 1910-1978, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1979, fig. 4-102, p. 177, illustrated ; Dr. Donald Robert Stoltz, Marshall Louis Stoltz and William B. Earle, The Advertising World of Norman Rockwell, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1985, illustrated in color p. 202 ; Laurie Norton Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986, vol. I, no. A827, p. 567, illustrated