John Wayne and Norman Rockwell

In 1973, John Wayne sat for artist Norman Rockwell in his Stockbridge, Massachusetts studio for a painting commissioned by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.

The painting later was auctioned in 2018 and the top bidder, a collector, successfully bid $1,496,000 at the Jackson Hole Art Auction.

Here is Wayne with Norman Rockwell as well as the finished painting:

Norman Rockwell passed away in 1978 and Wayne died a year later.