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Norman Rockwell
Day in the Life of a Little Girl 1952
Oil on canvas
Painting for The Saturday Evening Post cover, August 30, 1952
This is a companion painting to Day in the Life of a Little Boy, Rockwell's prior cover painting for the Post published three months earlier. It would seem that painting thirty-two heads is far more work than one or two, but to Rockwell whose forte was portraiture, telling a complete story using this method was far less work than a cover with a detailed background. The events of the girl's day were so typical to the American child that this cover could be appreciated by large numbers of viewers. In other countries, Rockwell's Post covers were popular because their images were easily interpreted as the essence of American culture. |