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“Saturday Evening Post” Sells Rockwell Reproductions

Published: June 22, 2009
The Saturday Evening Post is putting together a new digital archive and, in the process, selling reproductions of some of its famous cover art, including images by Norman Rockwell.

The bi-monthly magazine has more than 330 Rockwells to choose from, including a Sept. 25, 1954 cover showing a working-class father sending his son off to college. The original painting, titled Breaking Home Ties, sold in 2006 for $15.4 million at Sotheby’s New York. The Rockwell covers were painted from 1916 to 1963. Other contributors to the Post included Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and, oddly enough, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.

Read more at Bloomberg.

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