"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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Reproduced for the 1976 Summer Olympics, held in Montreal, Canada. It depicts a young boy dreaming of running on the U.S. Olympic Track Team.
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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.