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Norman Rockwell
The Right to Know, 1968
Illustration for Look, August 20, 1968
In 1966, Rockwell was commissioned to create a military recruitment poster, but he felt conflicted about the war in Vietnam. In March 1967, he wrote to the Marine Corps to decline the assignment: "I just can't paint a picture unless I have my heart in it." One year later, Rockwell began work on The Right to Know -- a political statement expressing the right of citizens to be informed of the rationale behind their government's actions. |