the “wheels” and the “dump cart” MAI, 17.
“I remember” and “spreading our” and “always gray” Ibid., 29.
5: Urban Tensions, Pastoral Relief
“Unfairly, perhaps” MAI, 30.
“The other memory” Ibid.
“I forget how it ended” Ibid., 31.
“[F]rom the point of view” Barry Lewis interview, Jan. 12, 2001.
“The old neighborhood” Steven Millhauser, Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer, 41.
“Those summers” Ibid., 31.
“hot heavy smell” Ibid., 33.
“negative space” Daisy Rockwell, letter to the author, Dec. 10, 2000.
“I sometimes wonder” Jerry Rockwell, unpublished memoir.
“I think” MAI, 34.
“I heard that” and “I liked her” MAO interview, Sept. 27, 2000.
As more than one critic See, for one particularly fine example of such explication, J. Hillis Miller, “The Dark World of Oliver Twist,” in Harold Bloom, Charles Dickens, 68.
“sang . . . like angels” and “perched [on their stools]” MAI, 41.
“a typical Victorian” Robert Orpen, phone interview, Dec. 15, 2000.
“A slum” MAI, 41.
“he used to climb up” PR interview, June 26, 2000.
“[He] always” MAI, 38.
“My specialty” Jerry Rockwell, unpublished memoir.
“narrow shoulders” MAI, 38.
“crooked limp” Ibid., 39.
“some sort of a cripple” Ibid., 38.
“I put everything into” Ibid., 39.
“a lump” Ibid.
6: Mamaroneck: An Interlude
“We still had to go” Jerry Rockwell, unpublished memoir.
“of all things” MAI, 43.
When the choir boy’s voice changed St. Thomas Episcopal Church records, Mamaroneck.
“Norman Percevel, you’re late” MAI, 41.
“Norman Percevel Rockwell, you let go” Ibid., 41.
“I remember walking” Ibid., 39–40.
“Early into my adolescence” Dave Wood, Washington Post, Nov. 23, 2000, 24.
“Miss Genevieve Allen” and “trim” and “cloyingly” MAI, 42.
“I hated that coat” Ibid., 10.
“I imagined” Ibid., 45.
“I spent every Saturday” and “I went along” Linda Pero, “In Celebrated Company,” exhibition, NR Museum, Stockbridge, May–Oct. ’97.
“That must have been” Ibid.
7: Manifest Destiny
William Merritt Chase Gail Levin, Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography (New York, 1995), 43.
“Dressed” Ibid.
“It’d be nice” Quoted in Jay Geltzler, Westchester Home Life, Aug. 3, 1932.
“flatness” T. J. Clark, The Painting of Modern Life, 12–13.
“high” and “broad” and limited Michele Bogart, Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art, 34.
Like Rockwell, Pyle For a good account of Howard Pyle’s development, see Henry C. Pitz, The Brandywine Tradition, 38–40.
At Harper’s Ibid., 52, 60.
“I had” “Who’s Who,” Tattler, Mar. 1914, 15.
Such a syndrome Thanks to Dr. Jennifer Naidich and Sue Erikson Bloland, both of whom discussed with me “agitated depression” and its manifestations in the lives of various cultural strong men, including NR.
“rather large” MAI, 50.
“an unusual” Pam Koob letter to author, Jan. 8, 2001.
“Artist, Illustrator” MAI, 73.
George Bridgman Ibid., 60.
“lovely compositions” and “you can’t” Ibid., 60.
“as unfamiliar” “Bone and Muscle Man,” Time, Sept. 14, 1942, 45.
“carrying around” Ibid., 34.
“dressed like artists” MAI, 60.
“Prim and meticulous” Ibid., 62.
The League Raymond Steiner, The Art Students League of New York, 87.
“heavy black line” MAI, 58.
“flop down” Ibid., 58.
the League occupied See Raymond Steiner, The Art Students League of New York, 67.
“there was not . . . Why don’t you?” MAI, 56.
“He felt a sense” Henry C. Pitz, The Brandywine Tradition, 89–90.
“I really got” Audiotape, NR dictating his memoirs to TR, May 1959.
When he paused MAI, 56.
“Being somebody” Ibid., 53.
“jockey seat” Ibid., 63.
“He’d say” Ibid., 70.
The instructor occasionally ambled Ibid., 72.
“among people” Ibid., 80.
“Our objection” Thomas Gunn, The Physiology of New York Boardinghouses, 167.
“a comfort” Letter in the St. Thomas Episcopal Church archives, Mamaroneck, N.Y.
Tom Rockwell has suggested TR interview, May 2000.
A tell-all book Stella Carr, Stella’s Roomers, table of contents.
“What was” and “I have” MAO interview, Nov. 6, 2000.
Shocking . . . earlier Marilyn Yalom, A History of the Breast (New York, 1997), 227–29.
8: Earning His Sea Legs
“You want to go” MAI, 86.
“Rembrandt or two” quoted in “An Artist’s Interview,” Esquire, Jan. 1962, 76.
“I’ll write” MAI, 88.
“I was intensely ambitious” Ibid.
“as near” Ibid., 89.
9: A Cover Celebrity
“most courtly” Bob Patterson, “Newspaperman Arriving Here Finds a Famous Man Helpful,” New Rochelle Standard-Star, Oct. 1, 1959.
Directly bordering F. A. Rellstab, Facts About New Rochelle, “Queen City of the Sound” (New Rochelle, N.Y., 1925).
“hasn’t changed” Tom Hochtor interview, May 2000.
“Apart from” NR letter to Mark Augurt, Dec. 28, 1965.
“They knocked” MAI, 45.
The newspaper account “Squall Hits Local Dories,” New Rochelle Standard-Star, summer 1913.
“I am working” “Who’s Who,” Tatler, Mar. 1914, 25.
“I know” Ibid., 25.
“Actually” DR interview, Sept. 1999.
a personal log JR, Sept. 1914.
“I expect” Ibid.
“Norman not” Letter from “Marian” to JR, Mar. 14, 1915.
“he and Norman” JR letter to Carol Cushman, Sept. 23, 1915.
“He just never” Mead Schaeffer, audio interview conducted by Susan E. Meyer, Sept. 30, 1980.
he resorted to painting MAI, 107.
“One might see” New Rochelle Standard-Star, Nov. 1918.
“Aunt Nancy” and “she had” MAO interview, Sept. 27, 2000.
“People used to say” MAI, 27.
Tom Rockwell believes TR interview, Sept. 15, 1999.
But the conventional pretty girl Irene Rockwell answered several letters on her husband’s account as to why he painted so few girls; she explained that he just knew more about boys, but that he certainly liked girls as well.
“without class” Jan Cohn, Creating America, 25.
And he was proud MAI, 51.
When word reached Cohn, Creating America, 146–47.
The liberal assumptions Ibid., 148.
“specious sense of mastery” Ibid., 142.
as cultural historian Jan Cohn, Covers of the Saturday Evening Post, 49.
“in an outlandish” Quoted by Eric Segal, ibid., 635.
In an ad Ibid., 640.
“often energies spent” Sue Erikson Bloland interview, May 25, 2000.
“girls were” and “more polite” MAI, 67.
“make no mistake” I heard a variation of this statement from at least four people who knew him in Vermont or Stockbridge from the period 1940–78.
10: Becoming Somebody
“I was” DR letter to author, Oct. 12, 2000.
“When Norman” DR interview, May 1999.
“I didn’t know” Audiotape, NR to TR, Ma
y 1959.
“I have the ability” MAI, 82.
“Canadian” Margaret McBurney interview, Nov. 7, 2000.
Following the ceremony “Miss O’Connor A Bride Weds Norman Rockwell, A Well Known Artist and Illustrator,” Courier Freeman, July 5, 1916.
Theatregoers Linda Pero, “Hooray for Rockwell’s Hollywood,” NR Museum, Stockbridge, June–Oct. ’99.
“resolved” MAI, 121.
His antics MAI, 121.
the disapproving accounts Jeannette Hochtor interview, May 2000.
Considered the most John Tebbel and Mary Ellen Zuckerman, eds., The Magazine in America, 1741–1990 (Oxford, 1991), 63.
Only twenty-five years old Linda Pero, “In Rockwell We Trust,” NR Museum, Stockbridge, March–Aug. 2000.
11: A Stab at Adulthood
“apart from” NR letter to Michael Smythe, Nov. 3, 1956.
“People used” Tom Wolfe, review of America’s Great Illustrators, by Susan E. Meyer, New York Times Book Review, Nov. 24, 1978, 3.
“were too rich” Tom Hochtor interview, Apr. 2000.
“Pop knew” and “But in 1960” TR interview, Apr. 3, 2000.
“one of the best” Theodore Pratt, “Norman Rockwell,” New Rochelle Standard-Star, July 27, 1919, 2.
“neither time nor expense” Clyde Forsythe, “Who’s Who—and Why: Serious and Frivolous Facts About the Great and the Near Great,” Saturday Evening Post, Dec. 18, 1926, 24.
“He cared about” Quoted in Susan E. Meyer, Norman Rockwell’s People, 154.
“peculiar appeal” Harold J. Kline, “Making the Grade,” Globe, May 29, 1923, 8.
“Norman Rockwell is not a Greenwich Village artist” Theodore Pratt, “Norman Rockwell,” 2.
“arts people,” anonymous, New Rochelle Standard-Star, July 1920, 5.
“a great technician” NR, “Rockwell on Parrish,” Berkshire Eagle, Aug. 10, 1968.
“[It is as] if her thoughts” Brochure from the Rockwell Society of America, Kathleen Grant, 1983.
“a dominant force” Jan Cohn, Creating America, 177–78.
Although intellectuals Ibid., 177–78.
“a raucous affair” MAI, 24.
“everyone was drunk” Ibid.
“Norman would call” Connie Lewis Reitz letter to the Rockwell Society of America, July 8, 1984.
“I am always busy” Irene O’Connor Rockwell, Watertown Daily Times, reprinted from Normal Magazine, Nov. or Dec. 1921. Archival material from Massena Public Library “Rockwell File.”
12: Building a Home on a Weak Foundation
“seven-year itch” Robert Berridge interview, Feb. 4, 2001.
“ran off” Margaret McBurney letter to Tracey Middlekauff, Jan. 13, 2001.
“You have sold” Louis Frohman, “Know Anybody in New Rochelle?” International Studio, Sept. 1923, 522.
“Mr. Rockwell went to Paris” Amy Forbes King, New Rochelle Standard-Star, July 1922, 4.
“Mothers are” and “Perhaps it was” Ibid., 3.
“Before leaving home” Louis Frohman, “Know Anybody in New Rochelle?” 522.
“inferiority” and “the fine thing” Clyde Forsythe, “Who’s Who—and Why,” Saturday Evening Post, Dec. 18, 1926, 34.
His canny modesty Jan Cohn, Creating America, 274.
“at the age of eleven” Harold Kline, “Making the Grade,” Globe, May 29, 1923, 8.
“unlike the usual beginnings” Louis H. Frohman, “Know Anybody in New Rochelle?,” 519.
“his feet” “Norman Rockwell,” New Rochelle Standard-Star, Oct. 1923, 23.
“Even the suggestion” Frohman, “Know Anybody in New Rochelle?,” 520.
“especially likes” Ibid., 519.
“success has not” Ibid.
Although most of his early endorsements Linda Pero, “In Rockwell We Trust,” NR Museum, Stockbridge, March–Aug. 2000.
“the name of Norman Rockwell” Frohman, “Know Anybody in New Rochelle?,” 520.
“modernist art strikes Rockwell” Ibid.
“Anyone seeing his work” Ibid., 522.
“huge, white, cold” MAI, 169.
“Pop also told me” TR interview, May 2000.
13: Cutting a Fine Figure
“wise cracks” Clyde Forsythe, “Who’s Who—and Why,” Saturday Evening Post, Dec. 18, 1926, 34.
“A strong histrionic strain” Henry C. Pitz, The Brandywine Tradition, 120.
“younger people” “Perfectly Equipped Golf and Country Clubs Border on New Rochelle,” New Rochelle Standard-Star, Apr. 9, 1927, 24.
His son remembered TR interview, Apr. 3, 2000.
“arch-Americans” Benjamin Stolberg, quoted in Jan Cohn, Creating America, 171.
he and Irene bought “Studio, Once Occupied by Norman Rockwell, Moved,” Massena Observer, Mar. 24, 1927.
“He studies . . . work, work, work” Clyde Forsythe, “Who’s Who—and Why,” 34.
“My father had probably had a bit” PR interview, July 2000.
“As an artist . . . consideration” “Art Association to Launch Memorial Exhibition for Coles Phillips at Library,” New Rochelle Standard-Star, Jan. 11, 1927, 5.
“a woman came” PR interview, July 2000.
“outlying” Ruth Boyle, “A House with Real Charm,” Good Housekeeping, July 1928, 45.
“I think my father” Betty Parmelee (Aaronson) interview, June 2000.
“My father loved” Ibid.
“I heard that” Ibid.
“Orienta Point” Ibid.
“I thought it kind of odd” Nick Rockwell interview, June 3, 2000.
“John and Dick entirely off” Carol Cushman Rockwell, “The Wall Street Crash,” Cosmopolitan, Dec. 1930, 197–98.
“Baba” and “pretty, brunette” DR interview, Mar. 2000.
“the bidding” The Little Acorn, Nov. 1927.
“I often think” Ed Howe, quoted in Tebbel, George Horace Lorimer and the Saturday Evening Post, 161.
During his most productive years Michael Schau, J. C. Leyendecker, 25.
“I don’t even have time” Westchester County Fair, Oct. 1927, 10.
“Howard Pyle said” Ibid.
“Billy . . . time” Armstrong Perry, “The Boy on the Cover,” American Boy, Aug. 1928, 23.
“they were clambering” Ibid.
a young man Ibid.
“for having become,” Quoted from Judge, in Perry, ibid., 23.
implied in the encomiums Françoise Mouly, “Covering The New Yorker,” Cover Stories, Supplement to The New Yorker, Feb. 2001, 22.
14: Losing His Way
“Mrs. Norman Rockwell” Earl Pattison, Potsdam News, Aug. 29, 1928, 4.
“I just don’t think” PR interview, Aug. 22, 2000.
“my father bore” TR interview, Mar. 14, 2000.
The postcard shows Connie Lewis Reitz, letter to the Norman Rockwell Society of America, July 8, 1984.
“Norman was kind” “Reflections of Norman Rockwell: An Artist’s Legacy,” Ralynn Stadler, New York Times, Sept. 23, 1980, 23.
“The best artist’s” Norman Rockwell, Lehn and Fink Hour radio speech, Jan. 10, 1929.
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