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Norman Rockwell’s Research. You’d be Suprised of the Extent.

When creating his iconic paintings, Norman Rockwell went all out with one-hundred-percent focus. There was the communication with book and magazine editors who fed him ideas. Then, Norman would painstakingly create layouts with strong design elements. Since he demanded of himself that his paintings appear genuine, he searched for models until he found the one […]

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Mary Immen Hall, Three-time Norman Rockwell Model.

I first met Mary Immen Hall at my book signing for my book Cows in the Fog and Other Poems and Stories in the Bennington Bookshop, Bennington, Vermont. I mentioned that I had spent three months a year a short distance from Rockwell’s studio in West Arlington. Mary and I became “fast friends” after she […]

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