Rockwell

(Part VII) Before The Shot – At The Doctor First Day Of School The Dough Boy And His Admirers At The Vets Piano Tuner Look, Mom – No Cavities! Spirit Of Education Painting The Little Ho…

Today's Inspiration Group Norman Rockwell New Calendar (Winter), preliminary drawing - 1957 Gillette Elv...

Radiant Happiness is something you decide to do. It is radiating happiness in our external demeanor. How many things in …Continue reading →

Marble Champion, The Saturday Evening Post, September 2, 1939, oil on canvas, 28 x 22 in. americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/tellingstories/

copyright- estate of Norman Rockwell

copyright- estate of Norman Rockwell

The Gossips is the culmination of Rockwell’s fascination with the subject of gossip - while he had painted works exploring this theme in the past, it was not until his immersion in the Arlington community that the final composition came to fruition. In the present work, Rockwell depicts 15 figures, each portrayed twice, as part of a chain receiving and passing on a tidbit of gossip. The attention he pays to naturalistic detail in these expressive portraits is exceptional, and the artist…

Green Giant Canned Corn, 1939. Copyright the estate of Norman Rockwell.

A review of Everett Raymond Kinstler's exhibit Pulps to Portraits on view at the Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge MA thru May 28 and a report from the press opening by Mark and Annie Hoffstatter.

STOCKBRIDGE — In 1920, he was a national celebrity giving lavish parties around his sunken gardens on Long Island — and in 1940 an isolated, solitary figure the world was forgetting.