Norman Rockwell (26 page)

Norman (left) and his buddies during his three-month stint in the Navy, Charleston, South Carolina, 1918.

NR at work outside his New Rochelle studio at 40 Prospect Street, 1921. The boy is Franklin Lischke.

NR inside his studio, 1922, at work on
The Runaway
. He would later discard the easel in favor of a “painting table.” A reproduction of Rembrandt’s
Syndics of the Drapers’ Guild
hangs prominently at the left.

Mary Barstow and Norman Rockwell, courting in Alhambra, California, early spring 1930.

Mary and Norman, Alhambra, days before their wedding, April 1930.

Mary Rockwell with baby Jarvis at the Rockwells’ rue de Cambon rental, Paris, 1932.

Jarvis Waring Rockwell, NR’s firstborn child, and Mary Barstow Rockwell, 1931.

Showing off the Rockwell sons in Alhambra: Mary Rockwell, Bernice Barstow (Mary’s mother), Jarvis, baby Thomas, a tense-looking Norman Rockwell, and Alfred Barstow (Mary’s father), 1933.

Jarvis, Tommy, and their father on a rare family vacation, c. 1934.

Tommy, Mary, and Norman, sailing to England for Mary’s abortion, spring 1938.

On the stoop of their Arlington, Vermont, home, c. 1943: Tommy and Jarvis, Mary, Norman, and Peter.

Relaxing with the next-door neighbors, the Edgertons. In front: an Edgerton daughter, Jarvis, and Tommy. Behind: an unidentified woman (probably Amy Edgerton), Clara Edgerton, NR, an unidentified man (probably Amy’s husband), and Jim Edgerton.

The Rockwells’ second house, in Arlington, Vermont, across the Batten Kill River and the covered bridge, mid-1940s.