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The painting came into the possession of Steven Spielberg, who donated it to the permanent art collection of the White House in 1994. It was displayed in the Oval Office during the administrations of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, sometimes to the left of the President's desk, above a cabinet or table on which was displayed Frederic Remington's sculpture The Bronco Buster.
Tough Call – also known as Game Called Because of Rain, Bottom of the Sixth, or The Three Umpires – is a 1948 painting by American artist Norman Rockwell, painted for the April 23, 1949, cover of The Saturday Evening Post magazine. [1] The original painting is in the collection of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Scout at Ship's Wheel, 1913. Norman Rockwell was born on February 3, 1894, in New York City, to Jarvis Waring Rockwell and Anne Mary "Nancy" (née Hill) Rockwell [13] [14] [15] His father was a Presbyterian and his mother was an Episcopalian; [16] two years after their engagement, he converted to the Episcopal faith. [17]
Breaking Home Ties is a painting by American illustrator Norman Rockwell, created for the September 25, 1954, cover of The Saturday Evening Post. The picture represents a father and son waiting for a train that will take the young man to the state university .
The Four Freedoms is a series of four oil paintings made in 1943 by the American artist Norman Rockwell.The paintings—Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear—are each approximately 45.75 by 35.5 inches (116.2 by 90.2 cm), [1] and are now in the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
The illustration is an oil painting on canvas, measuring 45.75 by 35.5 inches (116.2 cm × 90.2 cm).The Norman Rockwell Museum describes it as a story illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, complementary to the theme, [7] but the image is also an autonomous visual expression.
The painting depicts the 1964 murders of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, and was intended to illustrate an article written on the murders by civil rights attorney Charles Morgan Jr. [1] The painting is oil on canvas 53 × 42 inches (134.5 × 106.5 cm), and also has a pencil on board study of the same ...
The sale of the art works was initiated after the conclusion of a legal disagreement among Stuart's sons. [1] A long term colleague of Rockwell's, Stuart had been given the paintings by Rockwell as a gift. [3] Saying Grace had hung in Stuart's office at the Saturday Evening Post, and subsequently in the Stuarts' living room in Wilton ...