American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell (77 page)

My parents, Jerry and Sally Solomon, owned an art gallery in New York from 1969 until their retirement in the fall of 2006. I remain indebted to them for instilling in me an early appreciation for art and independent thinking.

For the first twenty-five years of his career, Rockwell lived in New Rochelle, New York, where, by coincidence, I grew up. It was a great pleasure to have the chance to return to New Rochelle in recent years to research its history as an art colony. I made ample use of the artists’ files at the New Rochelle Public Library, one of the few suburban libraries with a first-rate collection on art monographs.

This book is dedicated to my sons, Eli and Leo Sepkowitz. Over the years I have benefited incalculably from their compassion, good sense, and quick wit, not to mention their willingness to spend the vacations of their childhoods in Stockbridge despite the absence of a major-league baseball team. Finally, thank you to Kent Sepkowitz, a wise and infinitely generous ally, who has been there for every word.

INDEX

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Abbey, Edwin Austin

abortion

Abrams, Bob

Abrams, Harry N.; Rockwell monograph

Abstract Expressionism

abstraction; Rockwell’s attempts at

Académie Colarossi, Paris

Adams, Phoebe-Lou

advertising and advertisements; Arrow Collar Man; black stereotypes; Famous Artist School; magazine and; Pan Am; rise of; Rockwell’s work in; television

Afloat and Ashore

African-Americans; civil rights movement; desegregation; models; stereotypes in popular culture

after-the-event scenes

Albert, Ernest, Jr.

album covers

Alice’s Restaurant

Alloway, Lawrence

Alzheimer’s disease

Americana;
see also specific paintings, subjects, genres, motifs, and themes

American Artist

American Book Company

American Boy
magazine

American Journal of Psychiatry, The

American Revolution

anarchism

And Every Lad May Be Aladdin

antiques

antiwar movement

April Fool’s Day

Arcaro, Eddie

Arlington, Vermont; as an art colony

Armchair General
,
The

Armory Show

Armstrong, Regina

Army, U.S.

Arrow Collar Man

Art Center School, Pasadena, California

Art Critic

Arthur Godfrey and His Friends
(TV show)

Artists Guild

Arts Magazine

Art Students League, New York; Bridgman’s classes at; Thomas Fogarty Illustration Class Award

Astaire, Fred

Atherton, John; death of;
The Fly and the Fish
; as model

Atherton, Maxine

athleticism

Atkins, Ollie

Atlantic, The

Atlantic Charter

Atlantic City, New Jersey

Atlantic Monthly, The

auctions

Audubon, James John;
Birds of America

Austen, Jane

Avedon, Richard

Backer, Bill

Back Room, Stockbridge, Massachusetts

Baden-Powell, Lord Robert

barbershops

Bard College

Barrie, J. M.,
Peter Pan

Barrymore, Ethel

Barstow, Nancy

baseball

Bauhaus

Beach, Charles Allwood

Beats

Beckett, Samuel

Before the Date

before-the-event scenes

Before the Shot

Belcher, George

Bell, Daniel

Bell, Julian

Bellows, George

Benedict, John

Benét, Stephen Vincent

Benton, Thomas Hart

Berkshire Art Center

Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts

Best, Jonathan

Best, Peggy Worthington; Rockwell and

Bible

Bierstadt, Albert

Biltmore Salon, Los Angeles

Birch, Dick

black eye

Blank Canvas

Bliss, Edward Leicester

Bliss, Muriel

Blood, Sweat & Tears

Bloomfield, Mike

Bloomingdale, Hiram C.

Blues Project

Blumenschein, Ernest

bohemia

book publishing

Bookworm

Boston Globe, The

Bouguereau, Adolphe-William

Bourke-White, Margaret

Bowie, David

boxing

Boyd, Adele

boys and boyhood; African-American; bare-bottomed pose; Boy Scouts idealization of; homoeroticism and; models;
Post
covers of;
Post
delivery boys; runaway;
see also
male figures; models

Boy Scouts; calendars; posters; uniforms

Boy Scout’s Hike Book
,
The

Boys’ Life
; Rockwell’s illustrations for

Boy with Baby Carriage
,
color insert
; as Rockwell’s first
Post
cover

Boy with Dog in Picnic Basket

Bracknell, Mrs.

Bradbury, Ray

Braman, Jason

Brando, Marlon

Braque, Georges

Breaking Home Ties

Breckenridge, James

Bremen
, SS

Brenman-Gibson, Margaret

Brennan, Francis

Bridges, Ruby

Bridgman, George

Briggs, Austin

Briggs, Clare

Briggs, Marie

Brindze, Ruth

Brinkley, Alan

Brock, Alice May

Brock, Ray

Brooklyn Art Gallery

Brooklyn Art School

Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Brooklyn Museum; Rockwell acquisition; Rockwell retrospective

Brown, Joan

Brown & Bigelow

Brown Lodge

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter;
The Peasant Dance

Bryant, William Cullen

Bryant Park Studio Building, New York

Buck, Robert Otis

Buechner, Thomas S.

Bulosan, Carlos

Bundy, McGeorge

Burnett, Leo

Burr, Aaron

Butch (dog)

Butterfield, Roger

calendars; Boy Scouts; Parrish

California; Rockwell in; themes

camera obscura

Cameron, Duncan

Campbell, Donald

camping

Campion, Dave

Canada

Canaletto

Caniff, Milt

Cantilever shoes

Cape Cod School of Art

Capp, Al

Capra, Frank

Carnegie, Andrew

cars

Carson, Eddie; as model

Carson, Johnny

Carter, Jimmy

cartoons; correspondence schools; Disney; military

Caruso, Enrico

“Case Against the Jew, The” (article)

Casper, Larry

Castelli (Leo) Gallery, New York

Castro, Fidel

Catholics

Cave, Edward;
Boy Scout Camp Book

Cavett, Dick

CBS

celebrity portraits

Century, The

Century Company

Century Magazine, The

Cézanne, Paul

Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania

Chagall, Marc

Chamberlain, Neville

Champlain, Samuel de

Chaney, James Earl

Charles Chrisdie & Company

Charles Scribner’s Sons

Chase, William Merritt

Checkers

Chicago

children:
see
boys and boyhood; girls and girlhood;
specific paintings, themes, and models

children’s magazines

China

Christian Science Monitor, The

Christmas; cards;
Post
issues; theme

Christmas Homecoming

Christy, Howard Chandler

Churchill, Winston

Circus Barker (The Strongman), The

Civil Rights Act

civil rights movement

Civil War

Clarke, Emmet

Claudel, Camille

Claudy, C. H.:
The Tell-Me-Why Stories

Clemens, Cyril

Clemens, Dick

Clubhouse Examination, The

Cluette, Peabody & Company

Cobb, Irvin

Coca-Cola

Coe, Fanny Eliza,
Founders of Our Country

Cold War

Coles, Robert;
Dead End School

Collier’s

Colonial America

Colonial Couple

color; duotone covers; four-color covers

Colorado

Columbia Records

Coming and Going

commercial art (phrase)

Communism

Connecticut

Connett, Louise

Connoisseur
,
The
,
color insert

consumerism

Coolidge, Calvin

Cooper, Gary

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Rockwell exhibition

Corinth, Lovis

Cornwell, Dean

correspondence schools

Corsi, Antonio

counterculture

Country Gentleman
,
The

Cousins, Norman

cowboys

Cowles Communciations

Cowley, Malcolm, “Portrait of Leyendecker”

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock:
The Little Lame Prince

Crawford, Michael

cropping

Crosby, Bing

cross-dressing

Cubism

Currie, Florence and Jack

Currier, Nathaniel

Currier & Ives

Currin, John

Curtis, Cyrus H. K. and

Curtis Building, Philadelphia

Curtis Publishing Company

Dalí, Salvador

dancing

Danenberg, Bernie; Rockwell’s Brooklyn Museum retrospective and

Danenberg Gallery, New York; Rockwell exhibition at

Daniel, Hawthorne

Davenport, Edmund Greek

David Frost Show, The
(TV show)

Davis, Forrest

Davis, Stuart

Dead End School
illustrations

DeFeo, Charles

Degas, Edgar

de Hooch, Pieter

de Kooning, Willem

DeMott, Benjamin

Depression

desegregation

“Deserted Village, The” (illustration)

Dexamyl

diaper cloth

Dickens, Charles;
David Copperfield

diners

Disney, Diane

Disney, Sharon

Disney, Walt; Rockwell and

Dmitri, Ivan

Doctor and Doll

doctors; psychoanalysis; theme

Dodd, Mead & Company

dogs; as models

Dohanos, Stevan

Dorne, Albert

Dos Passos, John

Doubleday

Douglas, Mike

Douglas, William O.

Dover Coach

Dower, Walter H.

Doyle, Mary Louise

drawing; figure; sketchbooks

Duchamp, Marcel,
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2

Dulac, Edmund

Duncan, Isadora

Durant, Will

Dürer, Albrecht

Dutch realism

Dwight, Harry

Dylan, Bob

dyslexia

Eakins, Thomas

Easter Morning

Edgerton, Buddy; as model

Edgerton, Clara

Edgerton, Jim

Edgerton, Joy

Edgewood Hall

Edison Mazda Lamp Works

Edwards, Clara

Edwards, Jonathan

Egypt

Eisenhower, Dwight D.; Rockwell and; Rockwell portrait of

electric shock therapy

Eliot, T. S.

Ellison, Ralph,
Invisible Man

empty-nest despondency

Episcopalians

Erikson, Erik;
Childhood and Society
; at Harvard; as model; Rockwell’s portrait of; Rockwell’s therapy with;
Young Man Luther

Erikson, Joan

Erikson, Kai T.

Erikson, Sue

Esquire

Estes, Richard

ethics; museum

Ethiopia

Evans, Redd

Evening Standard

Evening World, The

Extra Good Boys and Girls

Fair Catch, A

Falkenburg, Jinx

fall season

Falter, John; “pulled-back panoramas”

Family Circle

family reunions

Family Tree

Famous Artists School

Fantasia

Fast, Howard

father and son theme

Faunce, Sarah

Fauvism

Fawcett, Robert

Feiffer, Jules

Feininger, Lyonel

female figures:
see
girls and girlhood; women

Ferargil Gallery, New York

film; Disney animation;
Four Freedom
newsreel;
Stagecoach
poster; stars; western

Finch, Christopher

fine art vs. illustration

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

fishing

Fitzgerald, F. Scott; “Bernice Bobs Her Hair”;
The Great Gatsby
; “The Last of the Belles”;
Post
stories; Rockwell and;
This Side of Paradise

Fitzgerald, Zelda

Fitzpatrick, Jane

Flack, Audrey

Flagg, James Montgomery; Uncle Sam/Army recruiting poster

Flirts, The

Florida

Fogarty, Thomas

Ford, Gerald

Ford, Henry

foreign statesmen

Forsberg, Tommy

Forsythe, Clyde; cartoons by; Rockwell and; “And They Thought We Couldn’t Fight”; western scenes

Forsythe, Cotta

Fort Peck Dam, Montana

Fortune
magazine

Four Freedoms
; models; newsreel; poster images for war-bond sales campaign; publicity; Roosevelt and; success of; War Bond Show;
see also specific paintings