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Fine condition heavy oversized (folio, just over 13 inches tall) maroon linen boards, blindstamped front cover lettering, and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Acknowledgments; Directory of Rockwell's People; Preface by Susan E. Meyer, New York City, 1981; Introduction, Appendix and Index. Profusely illustrated with color photographs, black-and-white photographs plus two double-page foldouts of color paintings (specifically: 400 total illustrations including 100 plates and 2 foldouts in full color). Some rubbing at the upper rear jacket tip and a less than 1/2 inch darkened mark at the upper side page edges (see photographs). All pages are in very fine condition and the spine/binding is in exceedingly tight and square unread condition (see photographs). Signed, inscribed, and dated (October 20, 1981) by author Susan E. Meyer, with blue ink on the half title page. ""Before the stars of radio, television, and motion pictures captured the American imagination, book and magazine illustrators were the popular heroes of their day. Among this celebrated group, Norman Rockwell emerges supreme, remaining America's most beloved artist even years after the passing of the golden age of illustration. Rockwell's art consistently touched themes that transcend fashion and events and tapped the very wellspring of the American character. It is a well-known fact that Norman Rockwell drew upon his immediate environment for the subjects of his paintings. The people and events in his life were the people and events in his illustrations. But who are the people who paraded through the artist's canvases over the years? Here, for the first time, the world of Norman Rockwell is presented as he saw it. Meet the Edgertons of Vermont, whose son Buddy was Rockwell's favorite boy scout. Meet Don Spaulding, a student of Rockwell's, who also used Buddy Edgerton (as the Lone Ranger) in his comic book illustrations. And meet Rockwell's friend the illustrator George Hughes, who also painted Buddy Edgerton for the Saturday Evening Post. These are the people Rockwell knew and painted, and they formed a unique community of family, artists, and neighbors. For those who are unfamiliar with Rockwell's work as well as those devoted buffs who know his illustrations intimately, here is a world of new faces and recollections never before published. A unique feature of this volume is a directory of Rockwell's people, in which 243 models used in his illustrations is identified by a detail of the painting or drawing and is keyed to the page on which the work is reproduced. Norman Rockwell's People presents a warm and multifaceted view, showing clearly that the artist's work was an extension of the man. Through the firsthand recollections of Rockwell's models, we see that Rockwell truly believed in what he painted, and that his humanity was genuine. What the public loves in Rockwell's art, his friends and neighbors loved...
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