On November 3, 1945, Norman Rockwell drew a picture of one of the Marshall Field Building clocks on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.The Rockwell painting shows a man perched atop a ladder and adjusting one of the Marshall Fields clock to correspond with his own pocket watch. The Oriental Theatre in the background proves this depicts the matching Great Clock at the northwest corner of the building at State & Randolph. In 1948, Rockwell donated the original painting, The Clock Mender, to the store, where it had hung on the seventh floor ever since. After Target Corporation sold Fields to May Department Stores, which merged with Federated Department Stores in 2005, the Federated discovered a reproduction on display Federated removed the fake and asked Target to return the original. The painting has been donated to the Chicago Historical Society,which had from February 26, 2000–May 21, 2000 been the second stop of the seven-city national Pictures for the American People tour of the first comprehensive Rockwell career exhibition that had been organized by the High Museum of Art and the Norman Rockwell Museum and that had also visited the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, San Diego Museum of Art and Phoenix Art Museum.
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 01:16:40 +0000
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