Norman Rockwell (27 page)

Rockwell painting his World War II poster
Let’s Give Him Enough and On Time
, Arlington studio, 1942.

Jack Atherton critiquing NR, Arlington studio, c. 1948.

Rockwell showing his model, Jarvis, the pose he wants him to hold, 1945.

Main Street, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1954. Above the shops, Rockwell can be seen looking out of his studio window, which he installed as soon as he moved into the building.

Tom Rockwell’s wedding to Gail Sudler, at the Little Church Around the Corner in Manhattan, June 1955. From the left: an unidentified woman, Gail’s mother, Mary and NR, Gail, an unidentified woman, Gail’s father, and Tom. Mary, battling depression, had recently been institutionalized and undergone electroshock therapy; Norman picked her up from McLean Institution for the celebration and drove her back afterward.

Mary Barstow Rockwell, 1960. NR painted this soon after her death and hung it in his studio.

A haggard Rockwell at work, months after Mary’s death, 1960. Note the portrait of Mary, from 1950, hanging above his paint rack.

Norman and Mary (“Molly”) Punderson at their wedding, Stockbridge, October 25, 1961.

Rockwell hamming it up with his faux Jackson Pollock canvas, 1961—assuming the Abstract Expressionist’s famous stance, substituting his pipe for Pollock’s signature cigarette.

Norman, Molly, and Cynthia (“Cinny”) Rockwell, Peter’s wife, visiting the Acropolis, 1967.

Norman and Molly, joined by friend Doug McGregor, embarking on one of their daily bike rides in Stockbridge, c. 1970.

The front jacket of
The Thief
, 1977.

Jarvis Rockwell’s etching of a Korean woman, 8" x 6", early 1950s.