The Rookie (painting)

The Rookie (Red Sox Locker Room)
ArtistNorman Rockwell
Year1957
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions104 cm × 99 cm (41 in × 39 in)
LocationPrivate collection

The Rookie or The Rookie (Red Sox Locker Room) is a 1957 painting by American artist Norman Rockwell, painted for the March 2, 1957, cover of The Saturday Evening Post magazine.[1]

The painting depicts several Boston Red Sox baseball players in a locker room, joined by an apparent new player who is dressed in street clothes and carrying a suitcase, along with his baseball glove and baseball bat. The painting was sold in a 2014 auction for over twenty million dollars.[2]

  1. ^ "Normal Rockwell Museum Baseball Event/TheRookie". Norman Rockwell Museum. 19 May 2014. Retrieved December 22, 2016.
  2. ^ "The Rookie (Red Sox Locker Room)". Christie's. Retrieved December 22, 2016.