2002 issue 1 Charles Schulz – Master of Simplicity, by Jan Eliot
I first decided to contact Charles Schulz, whom I would later know as “Sparky,” in 1982. I had spent three years developing and publishing my first cartoon strip, Patience and Sarah, which featured a divorced single mom (Patience) and her precocious daughter (Sarah).
Merrie Christmas, by Linda Pero
The museum has been fortunate to receive a gift of an original 1929 Saturday Evening Post cover painting from the family of John W. Hanes of Virginia and New York. The 44 x 33-inch oil on canvas is an important example of the sub-genre of Dickensian motifs that Rockwell repeatedly explored and revisited over the course of his long illustration career.Reintroducing Norman Rockwell, by Robert Rosenblum
Norman Rockwell keeps pricking my art-historical conscience. First, there was the Wadsworth Atheneum, in 1985, where, to my disbelief, I saw hanging, right in the midst of Picasso, Mondrian, and Miro, a picture of a spunky little girl, smiling proudly over her newly acquired black eye as she waits outside the principal’s office for her comeuppance.Art and Patriotism, by Deborah Solomon
Patriotic art has never exactly ranked high on the list of aesthetic wonders, but who can doubt its appeal? It is hard to think of a painting in an American museum that can compete for visual immediacy with that famous image of Uncle Sam pointing his finger and sternly admonishing, “I Want You.”