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Norman Rockwell’s Most Important Literary Digest Cover

Leads Heritage Auctions’ American Art Auction on July 1

DALLAS, TX – A classic masterwork by the most From the Dixon Ticonderoga Collection, Norman
beloved American illustrator of all time could bring $1.8 Rockwell’s Grandfather and Grandson, 1929 (est.
million or more in Heritage Auctions’ American Art $500,000-700,000) was commissioned by the company
Auction July 1 in Dallas, Texas. in 1929. The focal point of the image is the yellow
Norman Rockwell’s Mother Tucking Children into Ticonderoga pencil balanced in the grandfather’s hand.
Bed (Mother’s Little Angels) Literary Digest cover, January The painting has hung prominently in the corporate
29, 1921 (est. $1,800,000-2,400,000) is a deeply offices of Dixon Ticonderoga from the moment it was
personal work, arguably the artist’s most iconic Literary received in 1929, until now. Grandfather and Grandson is
Digest cover of his 47 covers published between 1918 another in the line of Rockwell paintings that captures the
and 1923. The painting was given by Rockwell to essence of families and generations.
Literary Digest editor Rudolph E. Leppert in 1921, and Robert Henri Blond Bridget Lavelle, 1928 (est.
has remained in Leppert’s family ever since. Few images $300,000-500,000) is considered a love letter to Ireland,
hold the same sense of nostalgia in the American his home away from America and the inspiration for a vast
consciousness than that of a mother tucking her little and vital body of work from 1913 until he died in 1929.
children into bed at night, and few artists have captivated He and fellow artists John Sloan, George Bellows,
the nation’s imagination as adeptly as Rockwell. Norman Rockwell’s Mother Tucking William Glackens and Everett Shinn sought out Irish
“Heritage has long been considered a leader in the Children into Bed immigrant subjects for their urban realist paintings and
field of Illustration and Western Art, and in these illustrations. After moving to Ireland in 1923, Henri spent
categories, our auction will not disappoint,” Heritage Auctions Vice his last summer in 1928 on Achill Island, where he produced a series of
President and Director of American Art Aviva Lehmann said. “We feel hon- portraits of Bridge Lavelle, which were considered some of his strongest
ored to be entrusted with the cornerstone of our July sale: Rockwell’s mas- child portraits.
terful Mother Tucking Children into Bed. In terms of quality and value, this John Clymer’s Visitors at Fort Clatsap, 1978 (est. $250,000-350,000)
is one the finest American art auctions that Heritage has ever assembled.” reflects the artist’s process, in which he and his wife would research the
Howard A. Terpning’s Against the Cold Maker ($550,000-750,000) subject of the painting and then travel to the site for the painting to get a feel
comes from an important Texas collection. Once exhibited at the National for the area. That attention to historic detail and first-hand observation of
Academy of Western Art in Oklahoma City, Against the Cold Maker is the actual environment is what gives paintings like Visitors at Fort Clatsop
Terpning’s masterful depiction of three North Plains Indians persevering on such power and believably.
their journey through cold, unrelenting terrain, a canvas in which he Heritage Auctions is the largest fine art and collectibles auction house
achieved his stated goal of giving viewers “a sense of being there” in the founded in the United States, and the world’s largest collectibles auctioneer.
harsh, cold conditions. For more information regarding past and upcoming auctions, visit ha.com.

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