Norman Rockwell Photos

[hogan36]

Hello,


Does anybody know anything about Norman Rockwell's signature? I ran up on these at a yard sale this weekend.

 

[EQ8]

You could send these pics that you've taken to the Norman Rockwell museum in Stockbridge Massachusetts.
They should be able to tell you if it is his signature.
I've been to that museum.
MOST amazing place.
Many people donated originals back to it so they would always be on display.
If those are originally signed by him, I'd imagine they are worth quite a bit.

 

[Gambrinus]

That does not look even close.

https://www.google.com/search?newwi...BAgNEAE&biw=1360&bih=632#imgrc=Cjcla41TDratuM

 

[Jason in Enid]

Rockwell did paintings. Those look like magazine prints that someone framed and put the description on the back. Why would the artist sign a piece of cardboard on the back of a poorly framed print?

 

[Gambrinus]

Rockwell did paintings. Those look like magazine prints that someone framed and put the description on the back. Why would the artist sign a piece of cardboard on the back of a poorly framed print?

Most of Rockwells work was for the Saturday Evening Post magazine covers and he even called himself an "illustrator" and not an artist. The rest of what you wrote is a very good point.

 

[EQ8]

Apparently, the pictures were from a "Freedom" series Rockwell painted.
They were "cropped" to make commemorative postage stamps, so the names and signatures were
sort of removed from the original magazine print.
Someone wrote on the backs to tell what the names of the pictures were and who painted them.
Probably just a simple reference.
There was a set of four.
https://postalmuseum.si.edu/node/1844

 

[hogan36]

Thank you all!!

 

[hogan36]

Finally opened up the back of one of the pictures. This is what I found. It seems to me this may have came out of a book or something.

 

[gunsil]

Most of Rockwells work was for the Saturday Evening Post magazine covers and he even called himself an "illustrator" and not an artist. The rest of what you wrote is a very good point.

He WAS an illustrator, but all the illustrations for Saturday Evening Post were paintings that were then copied for the magazine covers.

 

[GoldieLocks]

His work was so we'll reprinted I suspect there wouldn't be much of a monitary value on these . But they are interesting.BTW, I am an Illustrator too.

 

[hogan36]

Thanks!

His work was so we'll reprinted I suspect there wouldn't be much of a monitary value on these . But they are interesting.BTW, I am an Illustrator too.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

 

[Trezurehunter]

I was wondering the same thing as Jason in Enid - Why would he sign the back of the cardboard that's in the frame ?