Deborah Solomon: ‘American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell’

Biographer and art critic Deborah Solomon discusses her long-awaited book, American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell. 

norman-rockwellSolomon, the biographer of Joseph Cornell and Jackson Pollock, has written the authoritative life of the painter who, as the star illustrator of The Saturday Evening Post for nearly half a century, provided 20th-century America with a defining image of itself. Solomon will discuss how Rockwell’s work came to symbolize the ideals of American democracy and how Rockwell himself became an unofficial “artist in chief.”

There will be a reception at 5:30 p.m. The event begins sharply at 6 p.m.

Roosevelt House is home to an original set of prints of Rockwell’s famous “Four Freedoms,” published in 1943 in The Saturday Evening Post and created in response to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s statement, in his 1941 State of the Union address, of the four essential human rights: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom From Want and Freedom From Fear. In her talk, Ms. Solomon will pay special attention to Rockwell’s work on the Four Freedoms, and to the relationship between Rockwell, a Republican, and President Franklin Roosevelt.











When: Thu., Nov. 21, 2013 at 6:00 pm
Where: Hunter College
47-49 E. 65th St.
212-396-7919
Price: Free
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Biographer and art critic Deborah Solomon discusses her long-awaited book, American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell. 

norman-rockwellSolomon, the biographer of Joseph Cornell and Jackson Pollock, has written the authoritative life of the painter who, as the star illustrator of The Saturday Evening Post for nearly half a century, provided 20th-century America with a defining image of itself. Solomon will discuss how Rockwell’s work came to symbolize the ideals of American democracy and how Rockwell himself became an unofficial “artist in chief.”

There will be a reception at 5:30 p.m. The event begins sharply at 6 p.m.

Roosevelt House is home to an original set of prints of Rockwell’s famous “Four Freedoms,” published in 1943 in The Saturday Evening Post and created in response to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s statement, in his 1941 State of the Union address, of the four essential human rights: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom From Want and Freedom From Fear. In her talk, Ms. Solomon will pay special attention to Rockwell’s work on the Four Freedoms, and to the relationship between Rockwell, a Republican, and President Franklin Roosevelt.

Buy tickets/get more info now