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Norman Rockwell
Ticket Seller, 1937
Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, April 24, 1937
As the Depression wore on, Rockwell's perspective on the vacation theme took a turn. In this cover painting, a bored ticket seller seems unable to entice anyone to purchase fares to any destination, near or far. Travel was Rockwell's only passion other than art, and it is the subject of many of his paintings. By 1930, he had been to South America, made three trips to Europe, and taken an extended trip to California where he met and married his second wife, Mary Barstow. In 1932, the Rockwell's, then including infant son Jarvis and pet German shepherd Raleigh, boarded the Mauretania for Paris. There, Rockwell hoped to find inspiration for his art, but five months into their eight-month stay the family returned to New Rochelle, New York -- their second child, Thomas, was on the way. |