Autumn – Winter 2006 Norman Rockwell, Year by Year: 1965, by Linda Szekely Pero
In 1965, two years after leaving The Saturday Evening Post as their most popular cover artist, Norman Rockwell, 71, was busy as ever. The Skippy Peanut Butter ads he had done for the 1963 Best Foods “Whispering Sweepstakes” had produced a winner. The prize was an original Rockwell portrait of the winner, and the winner turned out to be a family of five – more than Rockwell had bargained for.
A Rockwell Rediscovered – The Tale of Two Paintings
On April 6, 2006, Norman Rockwell Museum held a press conference to announce that a real-life art mystery had been solved. An iconic Norman Rockwell painting, not previously known to have been missing, had been found. The painting, Breaking Home Ties, first appeared on the September 25, 1954 cover of The Saturday Evening Post.