NORMAN ROCKWELL - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 08/10/1976 - HFSID 31415
Price: $360.00
NORMAN ROCKWELL
Rockwell typed and signed this letter to the Director of Special Events at
KMLA Broadcasting the year he made The Runaway
Typed letter signed "Norman/Rockwell" in blue ink. 1 page cut in half,
7¼x5¾. On "Stockbridge/Massachusetts" stationery, where Rockwell and his family
had moved in 1953. April 2, 1958. Addressed to: George R. Sanders, Jr.,
Director of Special Events, KMLA Broadcasting Corp., 2917 Temple St., Los
Angeles, California. In full: "Dear Mr. Sanders/I am certainly honored to
be in a group of such fine men, and thank you for asking me." Rockwell was still
illustrating covers for The Saturday Evening Post in 1958. He made one of
his most famous illustrations this year: The Runaway, depicting a
policeman confronting a runaway boy at a diner's counter. His second wife, Mary
Barstow Rockwell, would die a year later. With envelope postmarked Pittsfield,
Massachusetts, Aug. 10, 1976, addressed to Clive Deane, President, Old North
State Chapter No, 79, Western Electric Co., 3300 Lexington Road, Winston-Salem,
North Carolina. Envelop has "Rockwell" written on it in red ink in unknown hand.
Rockwell (1894-1978) is an American artist and illustrator best known
for his realistic and humorous scenes of small town life in America. He
painted over 300 covers for the "Saturday Evening Post" from 1916 to 1965
after beginning his career at age 18 as an illustrator for "Boy's Life".
His art, drawn with attention to detail, had an air of simplicity and
sentimentality. Rockwell's popularity grew because his art seemed to be, for
everyday Americans, a mirror-image of real life. His subjects ranged from
American presidents to Mark Twain characters to the man who delivered his mail.
Rockwell's work was also published in several other magazines and on numerous
calendars, and his paintings portraying "The Four Freedoms" were distributed
as morale-builders and to promote the sale of Victory Bonds during WWII.
Rockwell published his autobiography, Norman Rockwell, My Adventures as
an Illustrator, in 1960. Page has been torn neatly from a pad or larger
sheet at top and bottom and cut in half lengthwise between salutation and body.
Otherwise in fine condition.
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