This Deserves Its Own Thread... On The 40th Anniversary...

[WillyT]

Please note the name of the artist in the lower right-hand corner.



Thank you Norman... I had no idea.

[TomInTib]

1. I had never seen that image until now.

Damn, that is pretty stout.

[WillyT]

2. Me Neither, Funny That...

This country, or elements in it, have used NR's paintings to (sorry) paint a particular image of America.

I have seen dozens of of his works over the years, but it wasn't till a post here last night that I saw this one.

Another reason to love DU.

:shrug:

[TomInTib]

4. Another good point.

I have spent a good bit of time in the business of Image Licensing.

And until now, I thought I had seen every image that the Estate held. But I suppose I have just seen the ones up for License.

I'll be damned.

[WillyT]

28. You And I, Are Gonna Have Cocktails Someday...

I'm almost out of debt, I'm thinkin May...

:hi:

[TomInTib]

34. Fuck it, Man....

We will come to Sacremonious and I will buy.

I am moving to NYC, and would hate to miss an opportunity to share one with you, WillyT.

Tiburon...

Upper West Side...

Bay...

Hudson....

WTH?

Tom

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

11. He was a New Yorker and when he tried small-town life he didn't like it.

He felt everyone was conservative and in everyone's business. (His wife was an alcoholic who was institutionalized, and the gossip mill disgusted him.)

When Shirley Jackson's THE LOTTERY came out he gave people copies of it as a perfect summation of the small town mentality.

[roguevalley]

40. NR was a lifelong hater of descrimination. His painting of the little

girl going into the segregated school surrounded by federal marshalls is amazing. He's an amazingly diverse artist.

[uppityperson]

3. It is 40 yrs? RIP. We've come a ways, got a long ways left to go.

We could return there, or stay there, so easily.

[NYC]

5. I had no idea.

Thanks, WillyT, for posting this.

I always saw Norman Rockwell as someone who painted an America that didn't truly exist.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

9. He gave some great interviews in the 1970s about how he almost regretted painting the four freedoms

He said that in retrospect, it seemed smug.

[MADem]

32. At the time, though, it was "right on." Funny how that is, some times. NT

[MADem]

6. Norman did some beautiful civil rights works. He was known for them during that timeframe

He was a thoughtful commentator on the "current" scene:






.... in his later years, Rockwell began receiving more attention as a painter when he chose more serious subjects such as the series on racism for Look magazine.<8> One example of this more serious work is The Problem We All Live With, which dealt with the issue of school integration. The painting depicts a young African American girl, Ruby Bridges, flanked by white federal marshals, walking to school past a wall defaced by racist graffiti.

In 1999, New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl said of Rockwell in ArtNews: “Rockwell is terrific. It’s become too tedious to pretend he isn’t.”<5>

Rockwell's work was exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2001.<9> Rockwell's Breaking Home Ties sold for $15.4 million at a 2006 Sotheby’s auction.<5> In 2008, a twelve-city U.S. tour of Rockwell's works is scheduled.<1>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Rockwell

[stillcool]

12. Thanks.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

19. These are from his LOOK magazine period. The Saturday Evening Post was very RW

When he stopped working with the SEP in the early 1960s he started working for LOOK and revealing his very liberal self that had been submerged all those years doing bucolic SEP stuff.

[MADem]

31. He did a pic of two dying US servicemembers in VNam, one black, one white,

blood comingling...LOOK refused to publish it--they got a bit chickenshit. But they did put a lot of his stuff out there.

[WillyT]

24. Yes He Was.. And I Love Ya For This...

:loveya:

[roguevalley]

41. those kids are going to have so much fun. it takes a lifetime of

learning to hate.

[WillyT]

7. It's So Well Done... Those Shadows, They Say So Much...

:cry:

And the imagining of the final moments...

:evilfrown:

[CitizenLeft]

17. yes they do.

Ominous. Thank you for this.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

8. Rockwell was a big liberal

He was the first person to try to turn in a cover painting to the (very backward, RW and rurally oriented) Saturday Evening Post that depicted a black person who was not a servant or a hobo.

(He was told that people were not ready for that sort of thing)

[NYC]

43. Thanks for the information.

I had judged him by his Saturday Evening Post paintings.

[AlCzervik]

10. Wow, who knew? I've never seen this before, i've only seen his Americana stuff.

how many people will never see this and should?

Thanks for sharing that Willy.

[WillyT]

15. Hey You.. And Even His Americana Stuff Takes On Greater Meaning, No ???

:shrug:

[AlCzervik]

16. honestly Willy i've never seen that one either.

[SeattleGirl]

13. Wow! I've never seen this one before. n/t

[NastyRiffraff]

14. Wow. I didn't know about this body of work

Thanks for sharing, and starting this thread. Beautiful art.

[stillcool]

18. Thank you...

[CitizenLeft]

20. Wait... DOH!

Is this Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney? :banghead:

I didn't get that until I saved the graphic for my files and I saw "mississippi" in the .jpg title.

All the more impressive.

[ClassWarrior]

26. Wow. Just wow.

A newfound pride in my heart for Mr. Rockwell.

NGU. NGU.

[WillyT]

29. Yes... It Is...

:cry:

[VolcanoJen]

21. What? I've never seen that before.

Shocking, beautiful, and poignant.

Damn.

Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, WillyT.

[WillyT]

22. Hey All... I'd Like To Give A Shout-Out To The DUer That Turned Me On To This...

Thank you, OnceUponTimeOnTheNet !!!

Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5027394#5037308

Post *215

Thank you...

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

35. Kick for the morning crowd.

Your Welcome WillyT. It's a Good thread.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

23. And that's the site where Reagan kicked off his campaign, right?

[Kool Kitty]

33. I believe so.

And he made much of how he admired "state's rights". So much for St. Ronnie. The son-of-a-bitch.

[rockymountaindem]

25. Wouldn't that be 44 years ago? In 1964?

Nevertheless, that's one amazing and sad painting.

[WillyT]

36. You're Right...

Thanks...

I'm at the age where I tend to think in decades.

44 years.

:hi:

[sandnsea]

27. Wow, very powerful

Thanks for posting. I have never seen this either.

[SaveOurDemocracy]

30. Thank you WillyT, and OnceUponATime...

for bringing this to our attention. I never saw this one either.


It certainly DID deserve it's own thread ... it's a very stunning and poignant representation. I, too, had never seen this one.

[WillyT]

37. Mourning Kick...

:kick:

[EffieBlack]

38. Norman Rockwell has some very poignant, insightful pieces on race relations

The Problem We All Live with is my favorite:

[XemaSab]

39. K&R

:patriot:

[WillyT]

42. One Last Kick From Me...

:kick: