Rockwell painting unveiled at Butler
YOUNGSTOWN — It was a little stubborn at first, but with a bit more effort Dr. Louis Zona pulled down the purple cloth covering “Lincoln the Railsplitter” — and the assembled basked in its glory.
The Norman Rockwell painting was unveiled this evening in an elegant affair at the Butler Institute of American Art. The 7-foot-tall, oil-on-canvas work, acquired in November by the Butler at Christie’s Auction in New York for $1.6 million, dominates the room, much as its namesake did.
Zona, museum director, repeated the words of national radio broadcaster Paul Harvey in his remarks: “Now it’s at the Butler Museum of American Art where we ALL can enjoy it.”
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