Norman Rockwell
"John F. Kennedy"
This piece is:
Very Rare!!
Hand Signed in Pencil by Norman Rockwell
Limited Edtion 
An Original Hand Pulled Lithograph
New 
Custom framed in a beaded bronze wood frame with a double mat. 
A True Collectors Item
FRAMED SIZE : 30.5" x 24"
Rockwell's portrait of President John F. Kennedy first appeared on the cover of the Post in 1960. The illustration would also mark the end of Rockwell's association with the Post, when it was republished on the magazine's cover in December 1963, as a memorial following Kennedy's assassination in November of the same year. In the early 1960s, having lost audience and advertisers to television, the Post attempted to capture readers from Life and Look by using portraits and photographs on their covers, and Rockwell was assigned to paint political figures and celebrities. Rockwell was sent to India, Cairo, and Yugoslavia to do portraits of Jawaharlal Nehru, Gamal Abdel-Nasser, and Josip Broz-Tito. Then in June 1963, he wrote to the Post stating new conditions for his assignments and concerns for his health that would limit his future work. According to his son Tom, "this was Pop's way of breaking-without-quite-breaking with the Post." There also were problems with some of the Post's new staff. The art editor spent a day in Rockwell's studio trying to tell him how to do the brushstrokes in his 1963 Jackie Kennedy portrait, and managing editor Matthew J. Culligan asked him to illustrate the Bible, a project he did not want to do. Rockwell had been approached by McCall's and Look, and he grabbed the opportunity. In 1971, when, after a brief hiatus, the Post resumed publishing under new ownership, the new editors asked Rockwell to work for them once again. When he wavered, his wife Molly interceded saying, "Norman, you mustn't!"
Norman Rockwell Bio:
“I showed the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed.” – Norman Rockwell Norman Perceval Rockwell, The Saturday Evening Post’s most famous and prolific illustrator, is considered by many to be the greatest American artist of all time. He was a master storyteller via canvas and paint, and his works, capturing the triumphs and foibles of the common man, are as popular today as they were in decades past. Rockwell’s talent flourished during a period referred to as “The Golden Age of Illustration,” when the nation enjoyed the brilliance of such illustrators as Winslow Homer, J.C. Leyendecker, Maxfield Parrish, N.C. Wyeth, and Ellen Pyle. Born in New York City on February 3, 1894, Rockwell always wanted to be an illustrator. He transferred to the Chase Art School at the age of 14, and then went on to the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League. There, he was taught by famous artists such as Thomas Fogarty, George Bridgman, and Frank Vincent DuMond. Rockwell’s first major commission came in 1912, when he was just 18, with his first book illustration for Carl H. Claudy’s Tell Me Why: Stories about Mother Nature. Rockwell later produced works for St. Nicholas Magazine and the Boy Scouts of America (BSA)’s publication Boys’ Life, of which he later became the art editor. During his three year tenure (1913–1916), he painted several covers, the first, Scout at Ship’s Wheel, appearing on the Boys’ Life September 1913 edition. Some of Rockwell’s fondest early memories were of summers spent in the country enjoying an adventuresome and carefree existence. His parents took in and cared for boarders, leaving young Rockwell the freedom to spend his days as he wished. Rockwell recalled in his autobiography, “I have no bad memories of my summers in the country,” and remarked that his recollection of this time “all together formed an image of sheer blissfulness.” Many of his experiences during this special time are reflected in his later paintings. Rockwell’s involvement with The Saturday Evening Post began in 1916. His family had moved to New Rochelle, New York, where a then 21-year-old Rockwell shared a studio with cartoonist Clyde Forsythe, who worked for the Post. Forsythe helped Rockwell submit his first successful cover painting, Mother’s Day Off, to the Post in 1916. Forty-seven years later, Rockwell had published a total of 323 original covers for The Saturday Evening Post, the last in 1963. Rockwell spent the last 10 years of his career painting about civil rights, poverty, and space exploration for Look magazine. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States of America’s highest civilian honor, in 1977 for “vivid and affectionate