Jun 17 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2709 -

Sale 2709 - Lot 181

Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
NORMAN ROCKWELL (1894 - 1978)
Portrait of Floyd Jerome Patten (editor at Boy's Life magazine).

Charcoal on buff wove paper with highlighted white, circa 1915. 508x356 mm; 20x14 inches. Initialed in lower right image.

Provenance
Gift from the artist to Floyd Jerome Patten; thence by descent to current owner.

This artwork will be included in the Norman Rockwell Catalogue Raisonne, which can be accessed on the Norman Rockwell Museum website at nrm.org.
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Additional Details

This was one of two original drawings given as personal gifts to the current owner's grandfather Floyd Jerome Patten (known as "Paddlin Pat") by a young Norman Rockwell. The first drawing is described in the "Paddlin Pat" Marshall Minnesota local newspaper column, "Bouya" No. 501, December 4, 1968. (Lot 179). Mr. Patten was one of the earliest purchasers of Rockwells' drawings for Boy's Life magazine. This is one of the earliest known finished portraits by Rockwell, along with the portraits of Helen Drufee (1914) and Commander Mark St. Clair Ellis (1918).

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