Corrected info on "The Little Model" painting

by Randall Stout
(Jasper, Oregon)

I was the person who brought the "Little Model" painting to the Antiques Roadshow. We were all shocked to learn about its value, although we had a appraisal done about 20 years prior that placed its value at about $200,000.

What we did not realize that this put our family at risk of a home invasion when the story aired. A US Marshall (family friend) suggested that we quickly re-locate it to a museum, which we did, and have that story run in the local paper (which it did in the Register Guard newspaper when we placed it at the Schnitzer Museum at the University of Oregon)

I can correct an error in this article. My wife had no letter to my mother. It was a letter from Norman Rockwell himself to my mother responding to a letter she sent him asking about the value. This was in the late 60's.

We kept the painting at the Schnitzer (not on display as we had hoped) until 2018, when we had Southebys auction it off. That is a story in itself, because of the challenges we had deciding on which auction house to use.