AMERICANA - NORMAN ROCKWELL

"Freedom of Speech"

"Tattoo Artist"

"The Runaway"

"The Lineman"

"Careful Aim"

"Homecoming Marine"

"Triple Self Portrait"

Norman Rockwell (1894 – 1978) is celebrated as "the Dickens of the paintbrush". His warm and often humorous images captured a unique vision of Americana. In addition to story illustrations, advertising campaigns, posters, calendars and books, Rockwell's paintings were showcased on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post for more than forty years. In 1957 the United States Chamber of Commerce cited Rockwell as a Great Living American, saying: "Through the magic of your talent, the folks next door – their gentle sorrows, their modest joys – have enriched our own lives and given us new insight into our countrymen."

MONDAY BOOK MANIA

This Monday I picked a book about "THE ART OF SKIING" written by Jenny de Gex full of vintage posters from the golden age of wintersport. In the 1930's & 1940's travel agency, winter resorts and railroad companies hired the best-known artist and graphic designers to create posters that would tempt the people to join the slopes! Those where the days of colorfull marketing. This book represent also the winter 2009/2010 which Dutch meteoroligst call a "Snow-winter"