Pictures for the American People by Norman ROCKWELL |
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Author Judy L. Larson, Maureen Hart Hennessey. 200 pages. Hardcover with dust-jacket. Language English .Publisher Abrams, Inc. Publication Year 1999 . Accompanying the first major traveling exhibition of works by Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), this volume presents a complete reappraisal of one of America's most beloved artists. Stunning colorplates reproduce Rockwell's paintings in crisp detail, & the essays set them in fresh contexts, discussing such themes as Rockwell's urban scenes; the reaction by both black & white Southerners to Rockwell's historic civil rights painting "The Problem We All Live With" & Rockwell's role in the development of American illustration |