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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 23, 2017 | Sotheby's | New York | American Art | 42 | $****** - ****** | TWO PLUMBERS | |||
May 22, 1996 | Sotheby's | New York | American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture | 116 | Estimates not disclosed | Two plumbers |
paintings
99.7 x 94 cm (39.25 x 37.01 in)
oil on canvas
signed Norman Rockwell (lower left)
Gordon Andrew
Bernard Danenberg Galleries, New York
Ernest Schwartz Trust, 1972 (acquired from the above; sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 22, 1996, lot 116, illustrated)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale
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 (organized by Bernard Danenberg Galleries, New York), February 1972-April 1973, illustrated p. 112
The Saturday Evening Post, June 2, 1951, illustrated on the cover ©SEPS licensed by Curtis Licensing, Indianapolis, IN. All rights reserved
Thomas Buechner, Norman Rockwell: Artist & Illustrator, New York, 1970, illustrated pl. 483
Christopher Finch, Norman Rockwell's America, New York, 1975, illustrated no. 283, p. 221
Dr. Donald Stoltz and Marshall L. Stoltz, Norman Rockwell and 'The Saturday Evening Post:' The Later Years, New York, 1976, vol. II, pp. 101, 173, illustrated pp. 102, 138
Mary Moline, Norman Rockwell Encyclopedia: A Chronological Catalog of the Artist's Work (1910-1978), Indianapolis, Indiana, 1979, illustrated fig. 1-376, p. 77
Susan E. Meyer, Norman Rockwell's People, New York, 1981, p. 102, illustrated in color p. 103
Laurie Norton Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986, vol. I, no. C456, p. 186, illustrated p. 187
Gregg De Young, "Norman Rockwell and American Attitudes Toward Technology," Journal of American Culture, Spring 1990, p. 102, illustrated fig. 8
Jan Cohn, Covers of "The Saturday Evening Post:" Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration from America's Favorite Magazine, New York, 1995, illustrated p. 231
Ron Schick, Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera, New York, 2009, p. 110, illustrated
The Saturday Evening Post: Norman Rockwell Special Collector's Edition, vol. I, no. I, 2010, illustrated p. 114
signed Norman Rockwell (lower left)
oil on canvas
39 1/4 by 37 inches
(99.7 by 94 cm)
Painted in 1951.
