American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell (80 page)

St. Nicholas Magazine
; Rockwell’s illustrations for

Stockbridge, Massachusetts; Alice’s Restaurant and; death of Rockwell; library; Loomis house; Main Street; models; Old Corner House; studio

Stockbridge Historical Society

Stockbridge—Main Street at Christmas

Stockbridge School

Stout, Wesley; Rockwell and

Stowe, Harriet Beecher:
The American Woman’s Home

Stroffoleno, Jon

Stuart, Ken

Stubbs, George

studios; California; fire; first; habits; New Rochelle; New York City; Paris; props; Stockbridge; Vermont

subjects:
see
models;
specific paintings, subjects, genres, themes, and motifs

suburbia

Sudler, Arthur

Sudler, Janet

Sun, The

Sunderland cabin

Sundermeyer, Bill

Surrealism

Tarkington, Booth

Tattoo Artist
,
color insert

Taylor, Elizabeth

television; black stereotypes; magazines vs.; 1960s emphasis on celebrity; Rockwell on

Texan, The
(film)

Texas

Thanksgiving; theme

Three Gossips

Ticket Agent
,
The

Tidemand, Adolph

Tiffany Studios

Till, Emmett

Time for Greatness
,
A

Time Inc.

Time
magazine

Tobey, Mark

Today
(TV show)

Todd, Pete

Tonight Show, The
(TV show)

Trachte, Don

Traffic Conditions

trains; station

Triple Self-Portrait

trompe l’oeil painting

Truman, Harry S.

Turner, Evan Hopkins

Twain, Mark; Rockwell’s illustrations for
Tom Sawyer
and
Huck Finn

uniforms

United Nations

Update
(TV show)

Updike, John

urban neighborhoods

U.S. Information Agency

Valentino, Rudolph

Van Brunt, James K.

van Gogh, Vincent

Vargas, Alberto

Velázquez, Diego:
Topers

Venezuela

Vermeer, Jan

Vermont; models; Rockwell’s first house in; Rockwell’s move away from; Rockwell’s second house in

Victoria, Queen of England

Vietnam War

von Schmidt, Harold

von Sternberg, Josef

Vose Gallery, Boston

Walker, May

Walking to Church

Wallace, Henry

Wall Street; 1929 crash

Walsh, Dan

war-bond sales campaign

Ward, E. F.

Warhol, Andy

Waring Manufacturing Company

war themes

Warwick, New York

Washington, George

Washington Post
,
The

watercolor

Waters, John

Watson-Guptill Publications

Wayne, John

WBAI-FM

Weighing In

Wes Gillis

West, American; painting;
Post
covers of

West, James

Westport, Connecticut

Whalen, Mary

Wharton, Edith:
Custom of the Country

Wheelis, Allen

Whistler, James McNeill;
Symphony in White
,
No. 1

Whitcomb, Jon

Wilder, Thornton;
Our Town
; Rockwell and

Williams, Hermann, Jr.

Willie Gillis character

Wills, Garry

Wilson, John Fleming; “Panama, City of Madmen”; Rockwell and; “Tad Sheldon, Boy Scout” stories; “Waves of the Moon”

Wilson, Woodrow

Winford, Orion

Wodehouse, P. G.

Wofford, Harris

women; as artists; “Boston marriage”; Fade-Away Girl; female nudes; Gibson Girl; girls’ heads; Miss America contest; post–World War I ideal; Rockwell’s awkwardness with; Rockwell’s depictions of; Rosie the Riveter; suffragist movement; World War II;
see also
girls and girlhood

Wood, David

Wood, Grant

Wood (George) Sons & Co.

working-class man

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

World, The

World War I; as mass media event; posters and illustration

World War II; beginning of; draft; end of;
Four Freedoms
series; posters and illustration; Rosie the Riveter; war-bond sales campaign

Wren, Christopher S.

Wulff, Lee

Wyeth, Andrew

Wyeth, N. C.; Rockwell and

Yale University

Yankee Doodle mural

Yates, James

Yellow Kid

Yonkers, New York

Yonkers Statesman
,
The

Young, Art

Youth’s Companion
,
The

Zeller, William

ALSO BY DEBORAH SOLOMON

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Jackson Pollock: A Biography

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Deborah Solomon is an American art critic and biographer. She is the author of
Jackson Pollock: A Biography
(1987) and
Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell
(1997). Her articles, essays, and book reviews have appeared in many newspapers and magazines, and she served as the “Questions For” columnist of
The New York Times Magazine
from 2003 to 2011. Solomon is a graduate of New Rochelle High School and received her bachelor’s degree from Cornell University, where she majored in art history. She received a master’s degree from the Columbia University School of Journalism. Solomon lives in New York City with her husband, with whom she has two sons. She can be reached on
Twitter
at @deborahsolo.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Copyright © 2013 by Deborah Solomon

All rights reserved

First edition, 2013

Works by Norman Rockwell printed by permission of the Norman Rockwell Family Agency. Copyright © 2013 by The Norman Rockwell Family Entities.

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following previously published material:

Excerpt from “Canto LXXXI” by Ezra Pound, from
The Cantos of Ezra Pound
, copyright © 1948 by Ezra Pound. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

Lyrics from “Rosie the Riveter,” words and music by Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb, copyright © 1942 (renewed) by Music Sales Corporation (ASCAP) and Fred Ahlert Music Corporation. International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Solomon, Deborah.

         American mirror: the life and art of Norman Rockwell / Deborah Solomon. — First edition.

             pages    cm

         Includes index.

         ISBN 978-0-374-11309-4 (hardback)

     1.  Rockwell, Norman, 1894–1978.   2.  Painters—United States—Biography.   3.  Illustrators—United States—Biography.   I.  Title.

    ND237.R68 S65 2013

    759.13—dc23

    [B]

2013021682

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Frontispiece:
Triple Self-Portrait
, 1961 (Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts)

eISBN 9780374711047

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