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Artworks
Rockwell Kent American, 1882-1971
For Us the Living, 1943Watercolor, gouache, and pencil on paper mounted on board12¼ x 9½ inches
31.1 x 24.1 cmSigned, dated and dedicated at lower left: To Bobbie and / Lewis Merrill 1943 / Rockwell KentSoldRockwell Kent's For Us the Living bears the following inscription at the bottom of the composition: 'Might not Lincoln say to us today: 'It is for us, the living, to...Rockwell Kent's For Us the Living bears the following inscription at the bottom of the composition:
"Might not Lincoln say to us today: 'It is for us, the living, to dedicate ourselves through work, through frugal conduct of our lives, through fervent sacrifice, to Victory – that those who die for us shall not have died in vain, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth'?"Provenance
The artist; by gift to
Bobbie and Lewis Merrill, New York;
[D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc., New York];
[Barbara Guggenheim and Associates, New York, 1990]; to
The present owner
Exhibitions
Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, American Stories: The Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall Collection, January 17—February 28, 2025
Literature
Claire Ittner, Patricia Junker, and Carol Troyen, American Stories: The Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall Collection, New York: Schoelkopf Gallery, 20251of 3
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