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Show S The Salt Lake Tribune, Thursday, October H 15, 1981 Norman Rockwell By Kenneth Stuart and animation great superb mimicry. In my office, he would become the old charwoman or the Reader's Digest Service first met Norman Rockwell in 1914 when I became art editor of The Saturday Evening Post. Norman had come to Philadelphia wilh four cover sketches to show me. By this time he was a Post superstar whose covers, each time one I or the truck driver baseball umpire or the wistful young girl If he An Artist of Nicer Side of America and Sawyer' 'Huckleberry Finn," he father read Dickens aloud to his two sons by Norman gaslight, sketched spent several days in the Missouri town where Mark Twain once lived, studying the architecture, soaking up atmos- - Fagin, Oliver Twist, Uriah Heep and the rest. He took his skill for appeared, increased never smoked hadn't been master a he storyteller-in-paint- , could have been a marvelous actor. Limitless Capacity he But apprehension the boy. horses In But underneath the childlike, occasionally naive exterior were t. lentless re- perfectionism and a limitless capacity for work True realism meant research and Norman loved it. When asked Tom to illustrate Norman held himself ,in at our first meeting. Later, when we became friends, he would act out his cover ideas with granted: "It w'as something I had, like a bag of lemon drops. My brother phere To get costumes for his models, he drove around Hannibal buying old clothes off people's hacks; he even bought the hat off a man's horse. Jarvis could jump over three orange crates; George Dugan could wiggle his ears; I could artists paint out their yesterdays; certainly Norman did. He was born in a shabby brownstone in New York City in 1894 to a proper Victorian family. In the Some draw. of while evening Love of Country Folks The family lived in a series of boardinghouses where the faces and mannerisms of the boarders made an indelible impre their Central Park By divorce. the early After a brief, unhappy bachelorhood, he mar ried Mary Barstow She bore him three sons and the marriage lasted until her death in 1959. When I first worked with him, Norman's 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. He had answered them ail himself. 60s, things were changing at the Post. New people were coming in and, gradually, Norman's re- lationship Unhappy Bachelor New York and 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 in but he was not the country-club type. In 1926, he and Irene agreed to later studied clenched in his teeth, he had an appealing, boyish manner tinged on this occasion with a touch of needn't have worried; the sketches were excel-'len- on 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 dearly reflected in hia works' affinity for dreams of heartland America. At 16, he enrolled in the National Academy School in sales by 250.000 copies. Slender, narrow fared, with quick, warm brown eyes and a prominent Adam's apple, the pipe he ssion with The years were pas sing the magazine came to an end He continued to be in great demand hut something had gone out of his work. Technically he was still incredible, but the structible Here Are Facts and Fictions About Acne By Dr. George F. Slade How much do you know about acne? If you've been affected by it and nearly all of us have at one time or another you know that it can be traditional hor- as androgen' enlarge and mones, stimulate the sebaceous glands, causing them to oil overproduce or "sebum. Normally sebum has no ill effects on the skin. e But, in the individual, sebum is pro- cosmetically and emotionally damaging. Acne is a skin disorder that knows no age common among adolescents but often plaguing adults as well. Its inci donee peaks during the years of puberty, between ages 12 and 17. but may persist even into middle age. In addition, dermatologists today report seeing more and more eases of adult-onsacne instances where people who never had acne suddenly develop a problem in their 20s and. acne-pron- greater than normal quantities. It mixes with bacteria at the base of the hair duced -- in warmth and humanity were not there He missed the old Post audi ence. He missed the letters that came in hundreds after each cover. as chocolate and nuts are unconfirmed. Many people believe that acne can be controlled by frequent scrubbing of affected areas. But dermatologists warn that too much scrubbing can actually aggravate or worsen the condition. Ol. I) wholesome ICE CREAM STORE will unique development FOP! LUNCH. Special of the Week ! PEPPER STEAK EGG ROLL FRIED RICE 295 1 1 Exquisite gourmet dinners in our authentic Chinese atmosphere Serving Fri. & p.m. til 10 p.m. Sat. 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Chinssa STORES BELOW THESE PASSBOOK CONVENIENCES- All Seasons TIGER Radial RAW Tire Physicians say they do not fully understand why Restouront AT SAT., CASH improve their mental FRI Serious Saver rudiuls Buy 4 get a ft Gourmet Served from that reduce the severity in most cases. 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. When you buy 4 steel-belte- d chances of surviving the disease. In fact, one study of terminal cancer patients showed that those who used visual imagery survived an average of 24.4 months twice alter diagnosis the1 national average. drugs nor radiation to affect a cure, but the patient "s own mind. According to cancer specialist Dr. O. Carl Simonton. and other researchers. patients, who regularly use their imaginations to picture their cancer cells as confused creaweak tures, and their white hood cells - the body's NOW OPEN . developing treatments whiteheads, Disease the treatment of cancer uses neither in OFFER GOOD THURS such, he had no equal. But the critics annoyed him just the PASSBOOK as first line of defense strong, dynamic heroes, United Press International A COUPON GOOD ONLY Medical science has made great progress in the last ten years in Blemishes then develop the form of blac- (h S of As Minor Progress in kheads, I FSHIO BASKIN-ROEEIN- irritation. causing of people. people. exercise and proper nutrition, acne can still occur, but can usually be controlled by medication. ng KUOUVTl HIM FOKIN plug, or comedo. This comedo blocks the pore, Caneer Treatment Mind Acne usually stops after the teenage years, but there are cases that occur or continue into adulthood. There is no connection between sex and acne. Sexual behavior in no way influences the outbreak of acne. Even with conscientious skin care, regular An illustrator who loved Norman's work wrote me a note that might serve as his How mucin epitaph richer this nation is for Norman's having been, among us His whole lifn was built upon decency and trust and a never-failifaith in the worth 1974, COUPON follicle, breaks down into fatty acids and forms a papules or pustules. To dispel many of the most common myths about acne, here is a list 30s. of facts about the disAcne is defined as an order There is no evidence inflammatory disease of sebacethe that the condition is alous glands. It manifests ways related to stress, itself in its simplest form though m a n v d e r as blemishes of the facial matologists believe that skin and in a major form stress and nervousness as severe disfigurement may trigger an acne of the face, neck, chest breakout. and back. There is also little evidence that a person's Oil or Sebum' complexion is related to It is associated with the food lie or she eats. of increased production hormones at puberty. While certain foods may These hormones, known aggravate existing acne. Til warnings about eating such foods until when it became evident that even he must grow old By mid 1978. he was a wasted shadow at tended by Molly, his third wife, and two nurses. He didn't quite make it to his 85th birthday; and on November 8. 1978, he died. The little church at Stockbridge was filled brought pleasure to an enormous number for all of us, hut seemed inde- Norman Through the years, critics faulted Rockwell for not being something he never thought he was an artist like Vermeer or Matisse. Norman knew he was a marvelous limner of the nicer side of American life, a man whose love for the un- abashedly with neighbors who.-faces had appeared on no many canvases throiui the years 237-200- 0 store |
