Comments on: Rockwell in the 1960s – Part I of II http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2012/01/06/art-entertainment/rockwell-1960s-part-ii.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rockwell-1960s-part-ii Home of The Saturday Evening Post Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:02:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Charles Neumann http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2012/01/06/art-entertainment/rockwell-1960s-part-ii.html/comment-page-1#comment-207682 Charles Neumann Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:13:28 +0000 http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=46483#comment-207682 Love the cover “The Connoisseur”, one of my all time favorites. Mr. Rockwell’s work only improved with age. It is nice to say the Saturday Evening Post was started bt Ben Franklin, even if it really wasn’t.

]]> By: Bob McGowan http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2012/01/06/art-entertainment/rockwell-1960s-part-ii.html/comment-page-1#comment-204911 Bob McGowan Sun, 08 Jan 2012 02:00:10 +0000 http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=46483#comment-204911 Diana, I really learned a lot about Norman Rockwell and some of the behind-the-scenes stories that accompanied certain covers. I find it fascinating ‘The Connoisseur’ involved a worker who climbed to the top of a ladder to dump a can of white paint on the canvas for Rockwell. One can’t help but wonder if Jackson Pollock didn’t utilize such techniques himself in his ‘paintings’! The irony of Rockwell and Pollock’s style together on the same cover was not lost on me either.

The Nasser story is almost jaw-dropping. Rockwell may have looked like the unassuming, all-American gentleman, but obviously was a force to be reckoned with when he needed to be. The fact he stood up to a leader of Nasser’s magnitude, and got HIM to give in to the profile painting, shows what a shrewd ‘salesman’ Rockwell was! This painting is among his finest, and I love the beautiful Egyptian background. No doubt Nasser loved it too; how could he not?!

Love the Nehru cover and ‘Modernizing the Post’. I also agree with the Post’s stand on Ben Franklin being the Post’s founder. He lit the match of the candle that led to his paper becoming The Saturday Evening Post, even if it had a different NAME in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. That’s really just a technicality.

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