Deputy Price and his stick-wielding posse were removed and represented only by menacing shadows in this quick color sketch, the left half of the original painting. Rockwell received the go-ahead to proceed with his final painting based on this sketch, but Look art director Allen Hurlburt, after receiving the final, chose to publish the sketch.
Preliminary sketch published as the final illustration for Southern Justice, by Charles Morgan, Jr., Look, June 29, 1965 15 x 12.75 inches Norman Rockwell Art Collection Trust, NRACT.1973.79 Licensed by Norman Rockwell Licensing Company, Niles, IL.