Norman Rockwell’s ‘Rosie The Riveter’ Dies, Mary Doyle Keefe Was 92

inquisitr.com ^ | 4-22-15 | The Inquisitr

[TurboZamboni]

Mary Doyle Keefe, the model for Norman Rockwell’s Rosie The Riveter painting, which was used to help inspire American women to work on U.S. soil throughout World War II, has died at the age of 92.

Mary Ellen Keefe, Mary Doyle’s daughter, confirmed that her mother died after a brief illness in Simsbury, Connecticut, on Tuesday.

Keefe, who grew up in Arlington, Vermont, which is where she first met Rockwell, posed for the image when she was just 19 years old. At the time of the painting, she was working as a telephone operator. However she became immortalized when the painting featured on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post‘s May 29, 1943, edition.

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Rockwell exaggerated Keefe’s figure in order to get the picture and painting that he wanted. Rockwell did this so that his Rosie The Riveter was depicted as strong. Keefe was very petite, and Rockwell decided to exacerbate her arms and shoulders to make them very large and broad.

[Fresh Wind]

exacerbate?

/facepalm

[JayAr36]

The Greatest Generation is rapidly dying away as we devolve into a sissified, politically correct matriarchal society that has no hope of surviving. It was good to have known you.

[alexander_busek]

Keefe was very petite, and Rockwell decided to exacerbate her arms and shoulders to make them very large and broad.

Who writes this kind of junk? Is it outsourced to helpdesks in Mumbai?

Regards,

[Don W]

“Exacerbate” her arms? Methinks the writer needs a dictionary.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

The original painting is on permanent display at CRYSTAL BRIDGES in Bentonville, Arkansas.

http://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g31441-d877831-i43032845-Crystal_Bridges_Museum_of_American_Art-Bentonville_Arkansas.html

[Rappini]

I think that is an Italian expression, because I’ve been using it ever since Barry Hussein Soetoto got in office.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Looks like she kept those impressive biceps in shape all of her long life. R.I.P.

[mowowie]

RIP Rosie

[bmwcyle]

Thanks Rosie

[minnesota_bound]

The image shows Keefe’s Rosie wearing work overalls while also holding onto a rivet gun as she stands on a copy of Mein Kampf, the autobiographical manifesto that Adolf Hitler wrote and was published in 1925, which outlined his plans for Nazi Germany. The entire background of the picture is an American flag waving.

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Today you would have terrorist William Ayers standing on a American Flag on a magazine cover on 9/11
That did happen and has only gotten worse.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Looks like she kept those impressive biceps in shape all of her long life. R.I.P.

No Anne Coulter, but not really quite so beefy in her younger days. She was about 21 in that picture.

[Chainmail]

Rockwell was a cartoonist: he turned that very pretty, slight girl into an unattractive beast. The real “Rosies” out there never lost their beauty..

[thesearethetimes...]

Stunning really, how quickly and completely this nation has changed.

I know that so much of it is smoke and mirrors courtesy of the media, and that there are still many decent, freedom loving Americans, but still - it is hard not to feel that D.C., (with more than a few state capitols), is irretrievably broken, and that eventually, we will have to find another way to address our grievances with what has become a political ruling class.

Heck - even typing these words makes me winder if I might get a visit : /

Very sad times for our Republic.
May God keep watch, FRiends.
Rest in Peace, Rosie.
Tatt