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Marriage License Signed Print
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Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) Marriage License, 1955 Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post June 11, 1955. Definitive catalog C452. Hand Signed Collotype signed in pencil lower right corner, listed as number 24/200 lower left corner. Measures 28" x 31" inches. This item has not been conserved, and shows slight staining below signature and number.
This is a limited edition print. A total of 295 prints of this kind were produced. A set of 200 were numbered. Another set of 35 were A/P's numbered with Roman numerals. A set of 60 were unnumbered. All of the prints made were signed in pencil by Norman Rockwell.
Originally created for the June 11, 1955 Saturday Evening Post cover, Marriage License was set in the town clerk's office just footsteps away from Rockwell's first Stockbridge studio on Main Street, Marriage License captures Rockwell's fascination with the somber wood-paneled interiors of his favorite seventeenth-century Dutch painters. Indeed, the building itself is fashioned after one pictured in Jan Vermeer's A Street in Delft. In keeping with the older style, Rockwell replaced an existing metal file cabinet in the left foreground with an old railroad station stove.
Within the historic interior, Rockwell contrasts the old man's experience with the young couple's eagerness. The clerk "is gazing dreamily at nothing, half bored, half sad; romance is routine to him." His model for the town clerk had recently lost his wife, and the authenticity of his feelings adds power to the poignancy in this study of youth and old age. -Norman Rockwell from The Norman Rockwell Album
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