Rockwell, Irene (née O’Connor); death of; divorce from Norman; marriage to Norman; as model
Rockwell, Jarvis (brother); athleticism of; death of; marriage of; relationship with brother Norman; as a toy designer
Rockwell, Jarvis (son); as an artist; birth of; as model; relationship with his father; school problems
Rockwell, John William
Rockwell, Mary Barstow; abortion and; alcoholism of; artwork by; death of; marriage to Norman; as model; as a mother; in Paris; sleeping pill abuse; therapy and hospitalizations; Vermont life; writing of
Rockwell, Molly Punderson; background of; courted by Norman; grammar of; marriage to Norman; Norman’s death and; Old Corner House and; “Willie, The Uncommon Thrush”
Rockwell, Nancy; death of; as model
Rockwell, Norman Perceval; as an actor; advertising work; ancestors of; anxiety of; art library of; at Art Students League; art training of; attempts to make “real art”; awards, tributes, and honors; awkwardness with women; beginning of Post career; bicycle injuries; birth of; boardinghouse life; boy models of; Boy Scouts and; Boys’ Life illustrations; Brooklyn Museum retrospective; calendars; in California; childhood of; Christmas cards; cleanliness obsession of; Colonial obsessions of; Corcoran exhibition; critics on; Danenberg exhibition; death and funeral of; death of Mary; dementia and decline of; depression of; Depression years; Walt Disney and; divorce from Irene; as draftsman; earliest known surviving work; early interest in art; education of; emphysema of; end of Post career; experimentation with different styles; fame of; Famous Artists School and; as a father; finances and business affairs; first book cover; first four-color cover; first magazine cover; first museum acquisition; first Post cover; first published illustrations; fishing trips; Four Freedoms series; gestation of ideas; Fred Hildebrandt and; homoeroticism and; humor of; hypochondria of; influences on; last Post cover; late period of; lectures by; Leyendecker and; liberalism of; Look illustrations; marriage to Irene; marriage to Mary; marriage to Molly; middle name of; as Miss America judge; modernism and; modesty of; monographs on; Grandma Moses and; move away from Vermont; Navy service and cartoons; New Rochelle life; New Yorker profile on; Our Town view of America; as Painter-Patriot; in Paris; photography used by; physical appearance of; politics of; prescription drugs taken by; press on; provincialism of; relationship with his brother; relationship with his parents; religion of; Rosie the Riveter and; sales and market value of; secrecy of; social realism of; in Soviet Union; St. Nicholas illustrations; Stockbridge life; studio fire; as a teacher; television appearances; in therapy with Erikson; Tom Sawyer illustrations; travels abroad; Vermont life; as a widower; work habits of; World War I and; World War II; N. C. Wyeth and; see also models; Saturday Evening Post covers; specific paintings, subjects, genres, themes, and motifs; studios
Rockwell, Peter; as an artist; bookshop of; marriage of; as model; psychological problems and therapy; school problems
Rockwell, Phebe
Rockwell, Richard
Rockwell, Thomas; birth of; bookshop of; as cowriter of Rockwell’s autobiography; marriage of; as model; psychological problems and therapy; relationship with his father
Rockwell, Waring; death of
Rockwell family, portrait of
Rockwellian (term)
Rodin, Auguste
Rogers, Buddy
Rolling Stones
romantic themes
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin D.; death of; Four Freedom series and
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rosen, Charles
Rosenberg, Harold
Rosenblum, Robert
Rose Parade
Rosie the Riveter
“Rosie the Riveter” (song)
Ross, Harold
Rothko, Mark
Runaway, The
Russell, Bertrand
Russell, George
Russell, Jane
Russian Schoolroom, The
Sailor Dreaming of Girlfriend
Salinger, J. D.: “De Daumier-Smith’s Blue Period”
Sanders, Colonel Harland D.
Sandow, Eugen
SANE
San Francisco
San Gabriel Mountains
sani-flat technique
Santa Claus
Sargent, John Singer
Saturday Evening Post, The; anti-Semitic article in; Atherton illustrations; beginning of Rockwell’s career at; circulation and; cover price; deadlines; decline of; delivery boys; editorial offices; end of Rockwell’s career at; Fitzgerald stories; Four Freedoms series; full color bleed; girls’ heads covers; Hibbs as editor of; JFK memorial issue; letters-to-the-editor column; Leyendecker illustrations; Life vs.; logotype; Lorimer as editor of; 1960s reinvention of; photography and; political endorsements; Rockwell’s autobiography serialized in; small-town America fantasy; Stout as editor of; World War II and; see also Saturday Evening Post covers
Saturday Evening Post covers; African-American models; altered; April Fool’s; of barbershops; California themes; of children; Christmas; civil rights movement; of Colonial America; criticized for being too provincial; of doctors; of dogs; duotone; Dutch realism and; of family outings; of family reunions; four-color; genealogical theme; hiatus from; of mirrors; most popular; of movie stars; of old men; of policemen; props for; for redesigned magazine; religious themes; reproduction; “Rockwell’s America” insert of; Rockwell’s first; Rockwell’s last; Rosie the Riveter; of runaways; self-portraits; western themes; Willie Gillis; World War I; World War II; see also models; specific paintings, genres, subjects, themes, and motifs
Saying Grace; as most popular Post cover
Schaeffer, Elizabeth
Schaeffer, Mead; as model; Rockwell and
Schafer, Chris
Schafer, Roy
Schjeldahl, Peter
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr.
school desegregation
Schorr, Collier
Schudy, Charlie
Schultze, Carl: Foxy Grandpa
Schwerner, Michael
Scott, Walter H.
Scout Is Helpful, A
Scovill, Bill
Scribner’s
self-portraits; first
sexual revolution, of 1960s
Shahn, Ben
Shakespeare, William
Shane, Joseph
Sherrod, Robert
Shiner, The
shoes; cleanliness of; theme
Shrader, E. Roscoe
Shuffleton, Rob
Shuffleton’s Barbershop, color insert
Sid (dog)
Simon & Garfunkel: Bookends
Sinatra, Frank
sketchbooks
small-town life; see also specific paintings, subjects, themes, and towns
Smith, Julia M.
Smith, William D.
smoking
Snow, Stanley: “Partners”
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Snyder & Black
social realism
Society of Illustrators
Solomon, Jack
Sontag, Susan
Sorrentino, Joe
Soviet Union
“So You Want to See the President!” (article)
Spain
Spielberg, Steven
split-screen painting
Spock, Benjamin
sportsman’s magazines
Stagecoach paintings
Stahl, Ben
Stalin, Joseph
Starr, Frances
Stars and Stripes
Steichen, Edward: The Family of Man
Stein, Gertrude
Steinbeck, John; Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Stermer, Dugald
Stevenson, Adlai
Stevenson, Robert Louis: Treasure Island
St. Nicholas Magazine; Rockwell’s illustrations for
Stockbridge, Massachusetts; Alice’s Restaurant and; death of Rockwell; library; Loomis house; Main Street; m
odels; 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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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.
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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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