oh wait, there's that one ruby bridges print.
― remy bean, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 06:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Maybe he just didn't want to paint Mexicans.
Can we make this a S&D thread to avoid off topic political arguments?
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 06:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Besides, it's pretty common knowledge that Rockwell was actually the opposite of a 'racist.' Hating on Rockwell is like hating on Fred Rogers or Winnie The Pooh, and just as boring.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 06:13 (sixteen years ago) link
he did a bunch of fairly powerful pictures depicting southern apartheid/the civil rights movement, IIRC.
― J.D., Friday, 6 July 2007 02:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Like that one of Ruby Bridges print.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 6 July 2007 02:59 (sixteen years ago) link
― J.D., Thursday, July 5, 2007 7:49 PM (4 years ago)
Good article on this: http://www.pophistorydig.com/?p=9780
― does Red Stripe work like poppers? (Abbbottt), Saturday, 14 April 2012 04:14 (twelve years ago) link
Rockwell himself would later say of his change in subject matter: “For 47 years, I portrayed the best of all possible worlds – grandfathers, puppy dogs – things like that. That kind of stuff is dead now, and I think it’s about time.”
― does Red Stripe work like poppers? (Abbbottt), Saturday, 14 April 2012 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
Vice President Dean Stockwell on the cover of the SEP.
http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/richard-nixon-by-norman-rockwell.jpg
― pplains, Saturday, 14 April 2012 04:33 (twelve years ago) link