American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell (75 page)

10
. Jonathan Best, e-mail to the author, February 9, 2010.

11
. Punderson, interview with the author, January 31, 2010; receipt for ring, NRM.

12
.
Update
, NBC, December 9, 1961; collection of the Paley Center for Media, New York.

13
.
San Francisco Chronicle
, November 9, 1961.

14
. NR, letter to Clyde Forsythe, October 8, 1961; courtesy of Marianne Hart.

15
. Diana Mugnaini, interview with the author, January 30, 2008.

16
. Molly Rockwell, letter to Kate More; collection of the author.

17
. Various family members, communications to the author.

18
. Molly Rockwell, letter to Kate More, January 9, 1962; collection of the author.

26. ROCKWELL DEPARTS FROM THE
POST
(1962 TO 1963)

  
1
. “The Press: Pepping Up the
Post
,”
Time
, August 4, 1961.

  
2
. Peter Bart, “Advertising: A Peek Allowed at New Post,”
The New York Times
, August 15, 1961, p. 45.

  
3
. He started in 1944.

  
4
. Unpublished essay notes by Ken Stuart; courtesy of Ken Stuart, Jr.

  
5
. NR, pencil notes, May 19, 1963; courtesy of Thomas Rockwell.

  
6
. NR, letter to Bob Sherrod, June 10, 1963, NRM.

  
7
. NR, letter to Asger Jerrild, September 9, 1963, NRM.

  
8
. Jacqueline Kennedy, letter to NR, January 25, 1964. He had done a small oil of Jackie for a story that ran inside the
Post
on October 26, 1963.

27. RUBY BRIDGES (1964)

  
1
. Homer A. Jack, director of SANE, letter to NR, January 2, 1962, NRM.

  
2
. William Gibson, interview with the author, March 18, 2005.

  
3
.
Look
, January 14, 1964, pp. 21–23.

  
4
. Quoted by Glenn Ligon, in Peter Schjeldahl, “Unhidden Identities: A Glenn Ligon Retrospective,”
The New Yorker
, March 21, 2011, p. 76.

  
5
. John Steinbeck,
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
(New York: Viking Press, 1962), p. 226.

  
6
. Dr. Robert Coles, interview with the author, May 13, 2010.

  
7
. Dr. Coles, “Southern Children Under Desegregation,”
American Journal of Psychiatry
(October 1963), pp. 332–44.

  
8
. Ibid., p. 332. This might explain why Rockwell painted the picture three years after the actual incident—the article by Dr. Coles could have brought it to his attention anew.

  
9
. Elaine Gunn, interview with the author, September 16, 2010.

10
. Christopher Wren, interview with the author, August 28, 2010.

11
. Jack Masey, interview with the author, May 28, 2010.

12
. Quoted in Donald Walton,
A Rockwell Portrait: An Intimate Biography
(Kansas City, MO: Sheed Andrews and McMeel, 1978), p. 233.

13
. United Press International, “Mrs. K a Delighted Deviationist,”
The Boston Globe
, December 28, 1963, p. 3.

14
. Masey, interview with the author, May 28, 2010.

15
. “Rockwell Draws Girl as Russians Look On,”
The New York Times
, December 25, 1963, p. 30.

16
. “U.S. Graphic Arts Shown in Moscow,”
The New York Times
, December 7, 1963, p. 17.

17
. “Letters,”
Look
, February 25, 1964, p. 12.

18
. John Waters, interview with the author, April 9, 2010.

19
. Claude Sitton, “2 White Schools in New Orleans Are Integrated,”
The New York Times
, September 15, 1960, p. 1.

20
. Paul Wilkes, “Robert Coles: Doctor of Crisis,”
The New York Times Magazine
, March 26, 1978, p. SM4.

21
. Ruby Bridges, interview with the author, March 23, 2011.

28. LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON, ART CRITIC (1964 TO 1967)

  
1
. NR quoted in Mildred Wallace, “Norman Rockwell, Travelling Portraitist, Recalls the World Leaders,”
The Berkshire Eagle
, January 12, 1966, p. 1.

  
2
. George Reedy, Johnson’s press secretary, letter to Richard Wilson of Cowles Publications, June 30, 1964, LBJ Library.

  
3
. Associated Press biographical service, unpublished “biographical sketch,” March 1, 1971; retrieved from the clipping files of
The Boston Globe
.

  
4
. Ibid.

  
5
. Ibid.

  
6
. The visit occurred on October 30, 1965, according to Lady Bird Johnson’s diaries.

  
7
. Nan Robertson, “Johnson Dislikes His Likeness,”
The New York Times
, January 6, 1967, p. 35; see also AP and UPI stories, same date.

  
8
. Lady Bird Johnson,
A White House Diary
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 1970), p. 332.

  
9
. Ibid., 330.

10
. Ibid., 331.

11
. Lyndon B. Johnson, letter to Robert Kleberg, Jr., April 25, 1966, central files, LBJ Library.

12
. Maxine Cheshire, “Very Interesting People,”
The Washington Post
, January 5, 1967, p. E1.

13
. Robertson, “Johnson Dislikes His Likeness.”

14
. Ibid.

15
. Cheshire, “Very Interesting People.”

16
. John G. W. Mahanna, “Artist Norman Rockwell Proves to Press That He Really Is Not Two Other People,”
The Berkshire Eagle
, July 25, 1967, p. 17.

29. THE VIETNAM WAR (1965 TO 1967)

  
1
. Phil Casey, “Norman Rockwell: More than Half a Century Illustrating the Human Drama,”
The Washington Post
, November 4, 1970, p. D1.

  
2
. “Mrs. Norman Rockwell,”
The Boston Sunday Globe
, December 14, 1969, p. 30A.

  
3
. Louie Lamone, interview with Annie Pettegrew, transcript, July 22, 1988.

  
4
.
The Berkshire Eagle
, January 12, 1976; Scott arrived in town in the fall of 1964.

  
5
. Helen Rice, interview with Stockbridge library, oral history project, November 27, 1979, cassette tape; Stockbridge library archives.

  
6
. “Artist Rockwell Joins Army of ‘Angry’ People,”
The Boston Globe
, July 2, 1965.

  
7
. NR, interview with John Batty, 1972, cassette tape; courtesy of Thomas Rockwell.

  
8
. Bing Crosby, letter to NR, October 26, 1965, NRM.

  
9
. NR calendar, November 27, 1965, NRM.

10
. Gary Giddins, e-mail to the author, November 18, 2012.

11
. NR, telegram to Lyndon B. Johnson, January 3, 1966, LBJ Library.

12
. NR, telegram to Lyndon B. Johnson, January 23, 1966, LBJ Library.

13
. Jinx Falkenburg, “The Postscript, by Jinx,”
A.M. Globe
, April 21, 1951; retrieved from
Globe
clipping files.

14
.
The Saturday Evening Post
, letters page, October 22, 1955.

15
. Arthur Paul, letter to NR, June 17, 1966, NRM.

16
. “NR by NR,”
Esquire
, January 1962, p. 69.

17
. Dugald Stermer, letter to NR, August 8, 1968, NRM.

18
. Christopher Wren, interview with the author, August 28, 2010.

19
. Ibid.

20
. “Lenin Prizes Won by Dr. Niemöller and Rockwell Kent,”
The New York Times
, May 1, 1967, p. 1.

21
. John G. W. Mahanna, “Artist Norman Rockwell Proves to Press That He Really Is Not Two Other People,”
The Berkshire Eagle
, July 25, 1967, p. 17.

22
. The painting appeared as an illustration for Jack Star’s article “A Negro in the Suburbs” in the May 16, 1967, issue of
Look
.

23
. Dr. Robert Coles, interview with the author, May 13, 2010.

24
. Dr. Coles, letter to NR, June 22, 1967.

25
. Dr. Coles, interview with the author, May 13, 2010.

26
. NR, letter to Dr. Coles, September 11, 1967, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Special Collections Library.

27
. Dr. Coles,
Dead End School
, with illustrations by NR (Boston: Little, Brown, 1968), p. 13.

28
. Dr. Coles, interview with the author, May 13, 2010.

29
. Ibid.

30. ALICE’S RESTAURANT (1967)

  
1
. Alice May Brock,
My Life as a Restaurant
(Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1975).

  
2
. Arlo Guthrie, interview with the author, July 15, 2009.

  
3
. Brock,
My Life as a Restaurant
, p. 79.

  
4
. Brock, e-mail to the author, February 19, 2011.

  
5
. Guthrie, interview with the author, July 15, 2009.

  
6
. “Ten Artists Will Show Local Scenes for Library Week,”
The Berkshire Eagle
, April 1, 1960, p. 21.

  
7
. Linda Szekely Pero,
American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell
(Stockbridge, MA: Norman Rockwell Museum, 2007), p. 200.

  
8
. Audiovox Service Identification Card, April 27, 1966, NRM.

  
9
. Karal Ann Marling,
Norman Rockwell
(New York: Harry N. Abrams, in association with the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1997), p. 147.

10
. Alice Brock, interview with the author, February 17, 2011.

11
. Robert Jay Lifton,
Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir
(New York: Free Press, 2011), p. 124.

12
. “Willie, The Uncommon Thrush,” was published as an eight-page feature in the April 1967 issue of
McCall’s
. Two years later, it came out as a book,
Willie Was Different: The Tale of an Ugly Thrushling
(New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1969).

13
.
Willie Was Different
, p. 31.

31. ANDY WARHOL & COMPANY (FALL 1968)

  
1
. Grace Glueck, “What Makes Bernie Run?”
The New York Times
, December 19, 1971, p. D27.

  
2
. Laurence Casper, interview with the author, May 12, 2011; Bernard Danenberg, interview with the author, July 24, 2011.

  
3
. Although the
Post
paid Rockwell for the painting, in 1957, it declined to publish it, perhaps because of its joking attitude toward the church. It ran in
McCall’s
in March 1969. It is now owned by Brigham Young University.

  
4
. NR, “Rockwell on Parrish,” art review,
The Berkshire Eagle
, August 10, 1968.

  
5
. Michael Crawford, e-mail to the author, May 2011.

  
6
. According to Carson Productions, the tape for October 1,1968, does not exist.

  
7
. Al Kooper,
Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards: Memoirs of a Rock ’n’ Roll Survivor
(New York: Backbeat Books, 2008), p. 140.

  
8
. Kooper, interview with the author, April 10, 2011.

  
9
. Ibid.

10
. Danenberg, interview with the author, July 24, 2011.

11
. Kooper, interview with the author, April 10, 2011.

12
. Grace Glueck, “Art Notes: Don’t Knock Rock,”
The New York Times
, November 3, 1968, p. D32.

13
. Thomas Buechner, “A Matter of Opinion,”
The New York Times
, October 20, 1968, p. D26.

14
. Danenberg, interview with the author, July 24, 2011.

15
. Ibid.

16
.
Portrait of Jackie Kennedy
, lot #2835,
The Andy Warhol Collection
, a six-volume catalog of the Warhol estate sale at Sotheby’s in 1988.

17
. Matt Wribican, archivist, Warhol Museum, e-mail to the author, May 31, 2011.

18
. Barnett Newman, quoted in Clifford Ross, ed.,
Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics: An Anthology
(New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990).

19
. Richard Estes, interview with the author, July 12, 2011.

20
. Audrey Flack, interview with the author, July 6, 2011.

21
. Danenberg gallery sales records; courtesy of Larry Casper.

22
. Casper, interview with the author, May 12, 2011.

23
. NR, televised interview with David Frost, December 2, 1970, NRM.

24
. The session was held in December 1967.

25
. Gary Wills,
Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-made Man
(1970; New York: Mariner Books, 2002), p. 12.

26
. Casper, interview with the author, May 12, 2011.

27
. Kooper, interview with the author, April 10, 2011.

28
. “Norman Rockwell Astray,”
Newsweek
, September 8, 1958, p. 92.

32. THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM (1969 TO 1972)

  
1
. “Historical Home Acquired,”
Bennington Banner
, June 2, 1967, p. 5.

  
2
. Louie Lamone, interview with Annie Pettegrew, July 22, 1988, transcript, NRM.

  
3
. Bernie Danenberg, interview with the author, July 24, 2011.

  
4
. Ibid.

  
5
. On January 29, 1969, accession no. 69.8, Brooklyn Museum registrar’s office.