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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 23, 2018 | Sotheby's | New York | American Art | 43 | $****** - ****** | BLACKSMITH’S BOY – HEEL AND TOE (SHAFTSBURY BLACKSMITH SHOP; “I’LL NEVER FORGET THAT LAST HOUR. AND NEVER, I IMAGINE, WILL ANY OF THOSE WHO WATCHED. BOTH MEN WERE LOST TO EVERYTHING NOW BUT THE SWING FROM THE FORGE TO THE ANVIL, THE HEELS TO BE TURNED AND THE TOES TO BE WELDED.”) | |||
Nov 13, 2017 | Sotheby's | New York | American Art | 16 | $****** - ****** | BLACKSMITH’S BOY – HEEL AND TOE (SHAFTSBURY BLACKSMITH SHOP; “I’LL NEVER FORGET THAT LAST HOUR. AND NEVER, I IMAGINE, WILL ANY OF THOSE WHO WATCHED. BOTH MEN WERE LOST TO EVERYTHING NOW BUT THE SWING FROM THE FORGE TO THE ANVIL, THE HEELS TO BE TURNED AND THE TOES TO BE WELDED.”) |
paintings
89.2 x 178.4 cm (35.12 x 70.24 in)
oil on canvas
signed Norman Rockwell (lower right)
Gift to the present owner from the artist, 1966
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Berkshire Museum, Norman Rockwell Retrospective, August 1958
Bennington, Vermont, Bennington Museum, Norman Rockwell’s American Paintings from Local Collections, March-July 1988
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Berkshire Museum, Rockwell Centennial Exhibit, May-September 1994
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Norman Rockwell Museum, Norman Rockwell: A Centennial Celebration, November 1994-November 1995
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Berkshire Museum, Beauty and Utility in American Art, September 1998-spring 1999
Roanoke, Virginia, Art Museum of Western Virginia, Norman Rockwell: Presenting the American Century, September 2001-January 2002
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Norman Rockwell Museum, Freedom: Norman Rockwell's Vermont Years, June-October 2003
Bennington, Vermont, Bennington Museum, Rockwell Kent to Norman Rockwell: Arlington's Artistic Community, June-August 2007
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Norman Rockwell Museum, September 2007-April 2008 (on loan)
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Berkshire Museum, What's the Story?, April-June 2008
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Norman Rockwell Museum; Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn Museum; Rochester, New York, George Eastman House; El Paso, Texas, El Paso Museum of Art; Sandwich, Massachusetts, Heritage Museum and Gardens; Vero Beach, Florida, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera, November 2009-January 2013
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Berkshire Museum, Objectify: A Glimpse into the Permanent Collection, January 2013-June 2017
The Saturday Evening Post, November 2, 1940, pp. 10-11, illustrated (© SEPS licensed by Curtis Licensing, Indianapolis, IN. All rights reserved.)
Christopher Finch, Norman Rockwell’s America, New York, 1985, p. 210, illustrated fig. 270, pp. 212-13
Laurie Norton Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986, no. S558, illustrated p. 766
Ron Schick, Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera, New York, 2009, p. 44, illustrated
The Saturday Evening Post Special Collector’s Edition, vol. I, no. 1, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2010, p. 87, illustrated
signed Norman Rockwell (lower right)
oil on canvas
35 1/8 by 70 1/4 inches
(89.2 by 178.4 cm)
Painted in 1940.
