ROCKWELL NORMAN Autograph Letter Signed and a Typed Letter S

Sale 2333 - Lot 316

Price Realized: $ 3,000

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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000

THANKING US MARSHALS WHO MODELED FOR "THE PROBLEM WE ALL LIVE WITH" ROCKWELL, NORMAN. Autograph Letter Signed, and a Typed Letter Signed, to U.S. Marshal Robert F. Morey, sending thanks for help in creating his painting, "The Problem We All Live With," published in Look magazine on November 14, 1960. The first, reporting that the painting is nearly complete and returning the badge and armbands he used as models [not present]. 1 1/2 pages, 8vo, personal stationery, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet. The second, stating that the work is complete and to be published in Look, apologizing that none of the marshals' faces appears in the painting, and sending the photographs taken for the painting [not present]. With an Autograph Postscript Signed, "N.R.," asking that he convey thanks to the other marshals who posed so well. 1 page, 8vo, personal stationery; folds. Stockbridge [MA, circa 1963]; 21 November 1963

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[circa 1963]: ". . . The picture is almost completed. I worked very hard on it . . . . The editor of Look came up here last Thursday and quote, wrote me 'I am convinced that this is going to be a great picture.' . . .
"Herewith is the badge and arm-bands. I changed the color of the arm bands a bit because the orange background just would not stay in the picture."
21 November 1963: "I have finished the painting for Look . . . . I am sorry none of your handsome heads show . . . .
"P.S. Will you please give my regards and thank[s] to the marshals that accompanied you and posed so well for me."
"The Problem We All Live With" depicts the historic walk taken by Ruby Bridges on November 14, 1960, when she was escorted by U.S. Marshals to the newly integrated William Frantz Public School in New Orleans.