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Show The Salt Lake Tribune. Thursday, October 15. 1981 NH . a My, How Time Can Fly! Why is it that just about anywhere you go, you can never find a clock that shows the right time? These clocks were found in a room by Tribune Staff Photographer Van Norman Rockwell By Kenneth Stuart master first met Norman Rockwell in 1944 when I became art editor of The Saturday Evening Post. Norman had come to Philadelphia with four cover sketches to show me. By this time he was a Post superstar whose covers, each time one appeared, increased sales by 250,000 copies. with quick, Slender, narrow-facewarm brown eyes and a prominent Adam's apple, the pipe he never smoked clenched in his teeth, he had an appealing, boyish manner tinged on this occasion with a touch of apprehension. But he neednt have worried; the sketches were excellent. I d, Norman held himself in at our first meeting. Later, when we became friends, he would act out his cover ideas with great animation and superb mimicry. In my office, he would become the old charwoman or the truck driver or the baseball umpire or the storyteller-in-pain- he could t, while the other was almost of 1:59 hours five a time of 0:17. And, neither one was right. The correct time was 11:30. er, showing fast a Limner of the Nicer Side of America wistful young girl. If he hadnt been a Readers Digest Service Porter. One clock showed a time have been a marvelous actor. Limitless Capacity But underneath the childlike, occasionally naive exterior were relentless perfectionism and a limitless capacity for work. True realism meant research and Norman loved it. When asked to illustrate Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, he spent several days in the Missouri town where Mark Twain once lived, studying the architecture, soaking up atmosphere. To get costumes for his models, he drove around Hannibal buying old clothes off peoples backs; he even bought the hat off a mans horse. Some artists paint out of their yesterdays; certainly Norman did. He was bom in a shabby brownstone in New York City in 1894 to a proper Victorian family. In the evening while their father read Dickens aloud to his two sons by gaslight, Norman sketched Fagin, Oliver Twist, Uriah Heep and the rest. He took his skill for granted: It was something I had, like a bag of lemon drops. My brother Jarvis could jump over three orange crates; George Dugan could wiggle his ears; I could draw. Love of Country Folks The family lived in a series of boardinghouses where the faces and mannerisms of the boarders made an indelible impression on the boy. In summer, the Rockwell family repaired to farms that took in paying guests. There, Norman acquired a love for country folk and settings that never left him a love that was clearly reflected in his works affinity for dreams of heartland America. At 16, he enrolled in the National Academy School in New York and later studied at the more progressive Art Students League. His illustrations began to sell and, when his work first appeared on a Post cover in 1916, other magazines swung their doors open. After a brief stint in the Navy during World War I, Norman resumed his prospering career. More money meant a more lavish life. His wife, Irene, liked social events and Norman tried. He went yachting on Long Island Sound, fell off horses in Central Park but he was not the country-clu- b type. In 1929, he and Irene agreed to divorce. Unhappy Bachelor After a brief, unhappy bachelorhood, he married Mary Barstow. She bore him three sons and the marriage lasted until her death in 1959. When I first worked with him, Normans love of country living had taken him to Arlington, Vt. ; I think half the population of the town eventually turned up on Post covers. Later, he and Mary moved to Stockbridge, Mass. Through the years, critics faulted Rockwell for not being something he an artist like never thought he was Vermeer or Matisse. Norman knew he was a marvelous limner of the nicer side of American life, a man whose love Post audience. He missed the letters that came in hundreds after each cover. He had answered them all himself. for the unabashedly wholesome brought pleasure to an enormous number of people. The years were passing for all of us, but Norman seemed indestructible until 1974, when it became evident that i u even he must grow old. By mid 1978, he was a wasted shadow attended by Molly, his third wife, and two nurses. He didnt quite make it to his 85th birthday; and on November 8, 1978, he died. The little church at Stockbridge was filled with neighbors whose faces had appeared on so many canvases through the years. An eloquent little sign hung on the door of a grocery, store: Closed from 1 to 3 p.m. today in respect for Mr. Rockwell. As such, he had no equal. But the critics annoyed him just the same, and accusations that his work was overly sentimental or shallow would occasionally throw him into a spell of depression. At such times, I found myself in the curious position of trying to give encouragement to the most beloved artist in America. -- Lost Its Warmth By the early 60s, things were changing at the Post New people were coming in and, gradually, Normans An illustrator who loved Norman's work wrote me a note that might serve as his epitaph: How much richer this nation is for Normans having been among us. His whole life was built upon decency and trust and a never-failin- g faith in the worth of people. relationship with the magazine came to an end. He continued to be in great demand but something had gone out of his work. Technically he was still incredible, but the warmth and humanity were not there. 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