"Dreams of Greatness" Lot no. 4244
By Robert Charles Howe (1954 - 2002)
1976
39.75" x 29.5"
Oil on Canvas
Signed Lower Left
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One of seven paintings in the Great Moments in U.S. Olympic History collection, Howe's artwork shows that achieving greatness begins with a dream. Here, a young boy dreams of running with the U.S. Olympic Track Team.
To help raise funds for the 1976 U.S. Olympic Team competing in Montreal, Calada, Sears, Roebuck and Co., in cooperation with the U.S. Olympic Committee, commissioned five American artists through The Saturday Evening Post to illustrate posters recreating memorable scenes from our Olympic heritage.
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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.