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In reply to the discussion: Things I don't miss about old-fashioned, Norman Rockwell era Thanksgivings. [View all]Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)9. Damn. I love Norman Rockwell's art
I never REALLY looked at it until, well, now. I browsed it and was familiar with his style, but never really took it in when I was a youth. Maybe with age and some life experience I'm finally able to look at it below just the surface.
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Things I don't miss about old-fashioned, Norman Rockwell era Thanksgivings. [View all]
pnwmom
Nov 2013
OP
That picture was of the little girl during segregation when she had to be escorted into a school
monmouth3
Nov 2013
#4
I don't see how people with straight, reddish hair can be read as racially ambiguous.
LeftyMom
Nov 2013
#18
I don't understand your post. Are you suggesting that the people in this picture were NOT
Number23
Nov 2013
#19
Norman Rockwell has some great paintings about Civil Rights, but in this pic both are White
JI7
Nov 2013
#20
Only one of those I saw was the first and escaped that fate by hanging out with the men.
freshwest
Nov 2013
#12
Not too long ago, someone started an OP suggesting that Charles Shulz was racist...
WorseBeforeBetter
Nov 2013
#17
Norman Rockwell was a strong progressive who supported FDR and Civil Rights.
Drunken Irishman
Nov 2013
#25