Norman Rockwell ~ May 1921

Norman Rockwell ~ The American Magazine, May 1921

"But it is not enough to draw things as they actually are, declares Mr. Rockwell. Behind every drawing that means anything must be an ideal…"

The article explains what things in the picture may symbolize. I would like to add that each thing has an ideal, not through association, that is, each thing doesn't symbolize other things, but that each has it own qualities; structure, texture, color, rhythm, energy …the nature of the thing which the artist attempts to bring forth in an ideal form. The intelligent design of line, pattern, value and color.

or as Rockwell's drawing master said ~

Once in a life class George Bridgman said to me, "My boy, you have drawn a leg, but you have missed the design of the leg." ~ Andrew Loomis, Eye of the Painter 

Merry Christmas!

Christmas: Santa Reading Mail
signed Norman Rockwell, l. l.
oil on canvas, 35 by 27 in.
painted in 1935

Eat Your Porridge!

or: All roads lead to David‽

 each  "~"  =  "who was a student of"

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

William Bouguereau ~ François-Édouard Picot ~ François-André Vincent and also of Jacques-Louis David!

J.C. Leyendecker

J.C. Leyendecker ~ Jean-Joseph Constant dit* Benjamin-Constant ~ Alexandre Cabanel ~ François-Édouard Picot ~ François-André Vincent and also of Jacques-Louis David!

Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell ~ George B. Bridgman ~ Jean-Léon Gérôme ~ Hippolyte De La Roche, dit* Paul Delaroche ~ Antoine-Jean Gros, baron Gros ~ Jacques-Louis David!

&

Norman Rockwell ~ George B. Bridgman ~ Gustave Rodolphe Clarence Boulanger ~ Hippolyte De La Roche, dit* Paul Delaroche ~ Antoine-Jean Gros, baron Gros ~ Jacques-Louis David!

Norman Rockwell ~ Frank Vincent DuMond, aka Du Mond ~ Gustave Rodolphe Clarence Boulanger ~ Hippolyte De La Roche, dit* Paul Delaroche ~ Antoine-Jean Gros, baron Gros ~ Jacques-Louis David!

&

Norman Rockwell ~ Frank Vincent DuMond, aka Du Mond ~ Jean-Joseph Constant dit* Benjamin-Constant ~ Alexandre Cabanel ~ François-Édouard Picot ~ François-André Vincent and also of Jacques-Louis David!

*called

Rockwell inspired by Vibert?

or: Inspired By(?) #7

Was Norman Rockwell inspired by J.G. Vibert?

Let us check the list: fat man, globe, magnifying glass, skull cap, red outfit… coincidence, I think not!

Norman Rockwell ~ Merrie Christmas, 1936

Under the Mistletoe, originally titled Feast for a Traveler

NORMAN ROCKWELL
 1894 - 1978

UNDER THE MISTLETOE

signed Norman Rockwell, l.r.

oil on canvas

37 by 32 in.

(94 by 81.3 cm)

The Saturday Evening Post, December 19, 1936

Norman Rockwell ~ Merrie Christmas, 1928

NORMAN ROCKWELL
 (1894 - 1978)

MERRIE CHRISTMAS: COUPLE DANCING UNDER MISTLETOE

signed Norman Rockwell (lower right)

oil on canvas

34 by 26 inches

(86.4 by 66 cm)

Painted in 1928.

Norman Rockwell ~ Merry Christmas, 1931

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) 


Merry Christmas: Concert Trio 


signed 'Norman/Rockwell' (lower right)

oil on canvas 
40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm.)

The Saturday Evening Post, December 12, 1931, cover illustration. 

Rockwell Santa‽ - 1919

NORMAN ROCKWELL

1894 - 1978

IS HE COMING? 

signed Norman Rockwell, l.r.

oil on canvas

31 1/4 by 27 in.

79.4 by 68.6 cm.

Painted in 1919.

FB IPO

Pump 'n' Dump

"FB’s stock wanted to drop under the IPO price of $38 many times during its 1st day of trading…only the underwriters held it up so they wouldn’t be publicly humiliated…they won’t always be there to prop this thing up, much like promoters eventually give up on pump and dumps when they’ve sold all their shares and the stocks ALL drop in the same exact manner…" ~ Timothy Sykes

1972 "FATHER AND SON", oil on canvas, 38" by 30" Norman Rockwell

CATALOGUE NOTE

In 1972 the United States Trust Company commissioned Norman Rockwell to paint Father and Son for the cover of their annual report. In a letter dated June 14, 2002, Maureen Hart Hennessey of The Norman Rockwell Museum writes, "the original idea was to show an entire family as 'Dad' tries to explain to his family 'the instruments of wealth'...Rockwell's version is much clearer and easier to understand, simply a father and son discussing these issues in the living room, with the family dog nearby." The setting for the painting was the U.S. Trust offices at 45 Wall Street and the models were an actual father and son from Stockbridge, Massachusetts. In Father and Son, a well-dressed, man is attempting to explain the fundamental principles behind financial instruments. With an investment certificate in his hand and numerous papers strewn about the living room table, the father looks towards his son, whose attentive but anxious and somewhat blank expression suggests his naiveté.

Models posing in the artist's living room in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

"Said pot wasn’t sweetened for the unknowing public, who listened to sweet melodies of Facebook’s web dominance by the propaganda outfit known to you as CNBC. The pot was saccharined for the direct benefit of selling insiders, who put an additional 25% more shares on the market, to be dumped at the ipo price of $38– valuing the company at $104 billion. Just a few weeks prior, the company was allegedly worth just $96 billion, according to lead underwriter Morgan Stanley.

What’s $8 billion between friends, no?"

full article~ http://ibankcoin.com/flyblog/2012/05/21/the-facebook-ipo-a-national-disgrace/

"…FB dropping 15%+ or the fact that it would have dropped even more had the underwriters not supported it yet again in order to avoid the inevitable embarrassment when Facebook does indeed drop 30-40% or even more as the hype fades and their slowing growth reality sets in." ~ Timothy Sykes

Flipside of the Brush

SUMMER

NORMANﾠ ROCKWELL

1894ﾠ -ﾠ 1978

SUMMER: SWIMMINGﾠ HOLE (TWOﾠ OLDﾠ MENﾠ ANDﾠ DOG)

signedﾠ Normanﾠ Rockwellﾠ (lowerﾠ right)

oilﾠ onﾠ board

overall:ﾠ 24ﾠ byﾠ 20ﾠ inchesﾠ (61ﾠ byﾠ 50.8ﾠ cm)

image:ﾠ 16ﾠ ﾠ1/4ﾠ ﾠ byﾠ 15ﾠ ﾠ1/2ﾠ ﾠ inchesﾠ (40.6ﾠ byﾠ 39.4ﾠ cm)

Paintedﾠ inﾠ 1950.

Details highlighting Rockwell's use of the brush handle (or similar) to scratch in highlights, details, and enliven certain passages.

Master Copy #7

Norman Rockwell after Frank Brangwyn

1926- The Love Song - Norman Rockwell - (Brangwyn detail)

plate from Frank Brangwyn and His Work, 1910 - The Brass Shop

1926- The Love Song - Norman Rockwell

1906_07 - The Brass Shop - oil on canvas, 79"x79" - Frank Brangwyn

The Love Song - December 1926 - LADIES' HOME JOURNAL

previously seen here ~ Brangwyn copy by Rockwell's fellow ASL alumnus Edmund F. Ward.

Inspired By(?) #1

  For the blog entry, "Swipe Spot #1", I wrote, "Often an artist will swipe/quote from another, either as homage, parody, necessity of purpose, or lack of imagination.".

  Now, I put to you that there is a variation of the traditional swipe, one whose origin is often more nebulous. One for which your suspicions are righteous, though the perpetrator and their lackeys may forever feign. One that on first glance seems wholly original, and could indeed be just that, for any similarity may simply stem from plowing the same well trodden field (as if thats any better). This swipe's bastard shall be known as 'Inspired By(question mark)', for we may never know! (we're just askin')

Inspired By(?) #1

or: Rockwell inspired by Tanner?

Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) - "The Banjo Lesson" 1893

Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859 – 1937) student of Eakins, Laurens & Constant

Norman Rockwell "The Banjo Player" - 1926

Norman Rockwell (1894 – 1978) student of Fogarty, Du Mond, and Bridgman

1926 Pratt & Lambert "61" Floor Varnish ad Norman Rockwell

a related work?

Uncle Remus - Norman Rockwell - oil and charcoal on board, 20 x 21"

Master Copy #2**

** #1 goes by the title Swipe Spot #11

"I'm not a master. I'm a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I'm still learning. So I'm a student-master. I don't believe in the word 'master.' I consider the master as such when they close the casket." - Bruce Lee

Seek, study, learn, employ! Nothing provides greater insight into a work of art than copying. Listing subtle revelations that can be discovered would be useless. You will appreciate only by doing!

EDMUND F. WARD (American, 1892-1991). Satyrs, Rubens copy. Oil on board. 20 x 16

Peter Paul Rubens, Two Satyrs, 1618-19

Copies by E.F. Ward, illustrator, painter, politician, friend and one time studio-mate of Norman Rockwell.

E. F. WARD (1892 - 1991) . Brangwyn copy, circa 1920s . Oil on canvas . 16 x 24

Frank Brangwyn, title (you tell me)

More thoughts on copying, and another one after Brangwyn can be found here~ http://ericbowmanartist.blogspot.com/2011/02/master-copies.html

I can understand missing the Brangwyn* …but the Rubens?!?

* (I guess) (or should that be jest?)