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NORMAN ROCKWELL
Child Reading by Lamp Light. Graphite on paper mounted on card. 280x250 mm; 11x9
3
/
4
inches, image. Signed lower right, though presumably in another hand (see notes below).
Two creases near lower right corner with small chip at same corner outside rules, overall
mild age-toning. Matted. Provenance: gifted by Rockwell to Hazel Dell-Brown,
Armstrong Cork Company Art Director, subsequently gifted by Dell-Brown to fellow
employee J.C. McCarthy, thence by descent to family.
[18,000/25,000]
Unrecorded pencil sketch. Likely a rejected composition for an advertisement for the Armstrong Cork
Company in Lancaster, PA.The signature is accomplished in a different (color and weight) pencil
from the drawing, and it is surmised that rather than a forgery it was added simply for identification
purposes at an early date.