Little, Brown & Company

Rockwell

Historian Ron Schick delves deep into Norman Rockwell’s American mythos, picking apart his photographic process—exploring the photographs he used as the basis for his paintings, noting exactly which details Rockwell kept and discarded from the photographs, revealing that many of his most memorable characters—the girl at the mirror, the young couple on prom night, the family on vacation—were friends and neighbors who served as his amateur models —and surmising what his works say about the social milieu and attitudes of the time. Schick brings Rockwell’s works to life in an homage to photography, art and Americana.

Guest:

Ron Schick, author of Norman Rockwell Behind the Camera