Bernard Danenberg Galleries, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Murray L. Pfeffer
Judy and Alan Goffman Fine Art, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania
Private Collection, Hawaii (sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 1999, lot 178, illustrated in color)
Corporate Collection, Wilmington, Delaware (acquired from the above sale)
Acquired by the present owner, 2006

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, The Fort Lauderdale Museum of the Arts; Brooklyn, New York, The Brooklyn Museum; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; San Antonio, Texas, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute; San Francisco, California, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Art Center; Indianapolis, Indiana, Indianapolis Museum of Art; Omaha, Nebraska, Joslyn Art Museum; Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Norman Rockwell: A Sixty Year Retrospective, February 1972-April 1973, p. 35, illustrated in color

Saturday Evening Post, December 8, 1928, illustrated in color on the cover
Thomas Buechner, Norman Rockwell: Artist & Illustrator, New York, 1970, p. 163,  illustrated 
Christopher Finch, Norman Rockwell's America, New York, 1975, p. 281, illustrated
Mary Moline, Norman Rockwell Encyclopedia: A Chronological Catalogue of the Artist's Work 1910-1978, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1979, no. 1-220,  p. 51 illustrated
Susan E. Meyer, Norman Rockwell's People, New York, 1981, p. 49, illustrated
Laurie Norton Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986, vol. I, no. C300, p. 113, illustrated p. 112
Jan Cohn, Covers of "The Saturday Evening Post:" Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration from America's Favorite Magazine, New York, 1995, p. 124, illustrated in color   
Maureen Hart Hennessey and Anne Knutson, Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People, New York, 1999, p. 162, illustrated in color

Lined. Under UV: scattered spots and dots of inpainting in the white background which is common in many of the Post Covers from this period. There are some scattered retouches in the gentleman's feet, head and collar. Specific spots of inpainting also found in the lady's clothing, and in the candles above the figures.
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