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The Art Critic
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I love you and need you always, I know I am extremely difficult at times due to my absorbtion (sic) in my work. . . . If you decide you want to be free, I consent but I earnestly believe we can have our best lives together.
—Norman to Mary Rockwell, undated, 19501(p376)
"I pray thee, then,/Write me as one that loves his fellow-men."
—Abou Ben Adhem, poem read at Norman Rockwell's funeral2(p59)
When interviewed for a magazine profile in 1960, Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) emphatically defined himself as a genre painter. To make sure his interviewer got it right, he spelled it out for her, "That's spelled g-e-n-r-e."1(p432) For more than 60 years, beginning with his first Saturday Evening Post cover, Boy With Baby Carriage, published on May 20, 1916, his anecdotal vignettes chronicled American life and values. In all, Rockwell completed 322 covers for the Post over nearly half a century. . . . [Full Text of this Article]
James C. Harris, MD
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