I did a small amount of background on Rockwell just to get an idea of what he was about. Little doubt his connections were with the Heartland of America and his art bears that out. It feels a bit unsettling, eerie even, to look at some of his work and say, I know this place, or a place just like it; or I know these people, or people just like them. His settings and all were just so, I dunno, down home. He had a knack...
The museum must be quite a place. I can only imagine.
“I did a small amount of background on Rockwell just to get an idea
of what he was about. Little doubt his connections were with the
Heartland of America and his art bears that out.”
Believe it or not I saw some of it in West Los Angeles.
Just like what my grandparents told me about the four years following
Dec. 7, 1941 in their area of southern Kansas and north-central Oklahoma.
Of course, this was after 9-11 and evaporated within a month or so.
Sadly, they remembered the West Los Angeles residents (in a vast
majority) remembered they were anti-American Democrats and returned
to the fold of Rep. Henry Waxman.
Sorry, my last paragraph should have started:
“Sadly, the West Los Angeles residents remembered...