Charlotte Sorenson was riffling through a newspaper one morning in December when she recognized someone in a gallery advertisement for a Norman Rockwell painting that she had not seen in years: herself.
There she was, a teenager in a cluster of schoolmates in graduation-day caps and gowns. Rockwell had called the painting âBright Future for Banking.â
Sorenson, who is 81 and lives in Boulder, Colo., had posed for Rockwell when she was a 15-year-old high school sophomore in Stockbridge, where Rockwell lived and worked from 1953 until his death in 1978. As the star illustrator for The Saturday Evening Post, he was known for summoning his neighbors to his studio to be models â dozens over the years. They were the faces in the quintessentially American images that the public loved but critics disdained. Sometimes, he supplied the accessories at his easel, long after his subjects had left his studio. But for âBright Future,â Sorenson said, he had a cap and gown a
Norman Rockwell Museum and the Greenburger Center for Social and Criminal Justice will present Art for Justice, a panel discussion, from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday, April 29, via Zoom.
By juxtaposing iconic images created by Norman Rockwell and reimagined for the 21st Century by Pops Peterson, this discussion will explore how art, even through a single image, can elicit an immediate understanding of injustice and help lay the groundwork for conversation, a social reckoning and ultimately, change.
The Daily Heller: Bascove Unbuilds Bridges (and Other Things) With Collage
I met the artist
Bascove over 40 years ago when she began doing her signature brand of woodblock editorial illustrations for me at
The New York Times OpEd page (one of my favorite commissions included three illustrated initial cap letters that were so bold yet simple they lit up the page). Her political and literary work is in the
permanent collection of the Norman Rockwell Museum. She was best known, however, for the numerous book jackets and covers that gave novels (
like this) a searing vitality. Not content to illustrate others work, she turned to her own painting. Three collections of these paintings have been published, accompanied by anthologies of related writings:
Hidden treasures people found at home By Bennington Grant Robert Alexander/Getty Images
A centuries-old mystery may be solved soon, thanks to some old-time pirate booty recently unearthed by an amateur historian. Jim Bailey found the coins using a metal detector in Middletown, Rhode island.
For 400 years, historians have pondered the escape route of pirate Captain Henry Every after his capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai, a ship belonging to an Indian emperor carrying gold and silver from Mecca. The discovery of these coins hints that Every made a pitstop in America. Although Bailey originally believed the loot to be of Spanish or colonial Massachusetts origin, research revealed it was from 17th century Yemen.
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