Existing comment:
Norman Rockwell [NP]
Willie Gillis in Convoy, ca 1941
Unpublished cover for The Saturday Evening Post
In this unpublished work featuring Willie Gillis being transported by convoy truck, Rockwell brought the war more explicitly into view. Realistically rather than heroically portrayed, soldiers nap, smoke, and eat during transport, while wide-eye Gillis, wearing a rabbit's foot around his neck, stares dreamily into the distance. This youthful character's innocence may have contrasted too greatly with the older, more experienced troops, who understood what was ahead. |