Details
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
Birches
signed 'Norman/Rockwell' (lower right)
pencil on paper
image, 9 in. (22.9 cm.) diameter;
sheet, 12 x 11 in. (30.5 x 27.9 cm.)

Executed in 1974.
Provenance
The artist.
The Franklin Mint, New York, commissioned from the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Literature
L.N. Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue, vol. I, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986, p. 397, no. A357.
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Lot Essay

This image was commissioned by the Franklin Mint in 1974 for a series of sterling silver medals honoring Robert Frost. Each of the twelve medals represented a Frost poem, the present illustrating the beginning of Birches. The poem begins, "When I see birches bend to left and right/ across the lines of straighter darker trees,/ I like to think some boy's been swinging them."

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