By descent in the family of the sitter

The board is affixed to the mat at four places along reverse. There are some pindots of surface accretion and the work appears to be slightly dirty. Under UV: the work retains an uneven varnish; some of the black pigments fluoresce but appear to be the artist's original work.
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Dr. Jefferson Joseph Citron, DDS served as a Lieutenant Commander in the US Navy during World War I. 

The Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, has added this study to the Norman Rockwell Online Catalogue Raisonné, which can be accessed at //www.nrm.org.