Norman Rockwell 1894-1978

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

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Description

Norman Rockwell
Chained Lightening-The boys saw, full ahead of them, a perfect human profile
signed Norman P. Rockwell, l.r.; also inscribed The Profile in the Hillside/ Chained Lightening on the reverse
oil on canvas en grisaille
29 1/2 by 23 in.
(74.9 by 58.4 cm)
Painted in 1915.

Provenance

Acquired by the present owners, circa late 1950s

Literature

Ralph Graham Taber, "Chained Lightening," St. Nicholas, September 1915, illustrated p. 1023
Laurie Norton Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue, vol. II, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1989, no. S492, p. 741, illustrated