Norman Rockwell, Before the Shot

signed “Norman Rockwell” lower center
oil on canvas
29 x 27 in. (73.5 x 68.5 cm.)
Painted in 1958.

Provenance:
Dr. Donald Campbell (gifted by the artist)
Bernard Danenberg, New York
Private Collection, United States (acquired from the above in 1968)
Thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibited:
Fort Lauderdale Museum of the Arts; New York, Brooklyn Museum; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; San Antonio, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute; Indianapolis Museum of Art; San Franciso, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum; Oklahoma Art Center; Omaha, Joslyn Art Center; Seattle Art Museum, Norman Rockwell: A Sixty Year Retrospective, February 7, 1972 - April 15, 1973, p. 118 (illustrated)
Amherst, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, An Alumnus Collects, November 12 - December 15, 1986, n.p. (illustrated); 1979-1988 (on extended loan)
Stockbridge, Norman Rockwell Museum, 2006-2019 (on extended loan)

Literature:
This work is the first version of the painting for the cover of The Saturday Evening Post, March 15, 1958
Laurie Norton Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue, vol. 1, Stockbridge, 1986, no. C487a, p. 217 (illustrated, p. 216)

Property from a Family Collection