"The Winner (Holy Cow!), The Saturday Evening Post preliminary cover" Lot no. 2188
By Robert Charles Howe (1954 - 2002)
1973 (Estimated)
24.25" x 21.25"
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Signed Lower Right
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The Saturday Evening Post preliminary cover, March/April 1973
A self-portrait of 18-year old Robert Charles Howe, winner of the the Norman Rockwell Cover Contest. An original copy of the magazine accompanies this piece.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
In 1972, when the Saturday Evening Post organization held a contest for the replacement of their illustrator, Norman Rockwell, Robert Charles Howe, then age 18, won the contest. Of the work he submitted, Rockwell said it was: "better than I was at 18”
Howe also became an illustrator in 1984 of children's books for the publishing house of E.P. Dutton.