normal rockwell auction white house sketches.

The White House Historical Association has paid $5.8 million at auction to reclaim a series of Norman Rockwell sketches that once hung in the West Wing. The sketches are titled “So You Want to See the President!” and depict various people waiting to meet President Franklin D. Roosevelt. They were removed in 2022 due to a family dispute over who owned them. The association made the winning bid at an auction on Friday. The sketches were created in 1943 and published in the Saturday Evening Post during World War II.