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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 16, 2012 | Christie's | New York | Important American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture | 77 | $****** - ****** | Dreams of Long Ago |
paintings
81.3 x 68.6 cm (32.01 x 27.01 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'Norman/Rockwell' (lower right)--inscribed with title (on the record)
The artist.
Private collection, acquired from the above.
Private collection, by descent.
Acquired by the present owner, circa 1970s.
Ithaca, New York, Cornell University, Johnson Museum of Art, 2011, on loan.
The Saturday Evening Post, August 13, 1927, cover illustration. N. Rockwell, The Norman Rockwell Album, Garden City, New Jersey, 1961, p. 36. T. Buechner, Norman Rockwell: Artist & Illustrator, New York, 1970, pp. 230, 254, illustrated. A.L. Guptill, Norman Rockwell: Illustrator, 3rd ed., New York, 1970, p. 166, The Saturday Evening Post cover illustrated. T. Buechner, Norman Rockwell: A Sixty Year Retrospective, New York, 1972, p. 46, The Saturday Evening Post cover illustrated. C. Finch, Norman Rockwell's America, New York, 1975, p. 10, illustrated. S.E. Meyer, Norman Rockwell's People, New York, 1981, p. 52, illustrated (as Cowboy Listening to Records). L.N. Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue, vol. 1, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986, pp. 108-09, no. C288, The Saturday Evening Post cover illustrated (as Cowboy with Gramophone (Dreams of Long Ago)). V. Crenson, Norman Rockwell's Portrait of America, New York, 1989, pp. 82-83, illustrated (as Cowboy with Gramophone). K.A. Marling, Norman Rockwell, New York, 1997, pp. 19, 21, The Saturday Evening Post cover illustrated.
