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Norman Rockwell
United Nations, 1953
Unpublished study
At the height of the Cold War and two years into the Korean War, Rockwell considered the United Nations the world's hope for the future. His appreciation for the organization and its mission inspired a complex work portraying sixty-five people representing the nations of the world along with members of the Security Council. Pictured here are Soviet Ambassador Valerian Alexandrovich Zorin, British Ambassador Sir Gladwyn Jebb, and United States Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge. United Nations never made it to canvas, but Rockwell's desire to picture a global community was realized on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post in Golden Rule nine years later. |