Norman Rockwell: Toward a Democratic History Painting

Norman Rockwell: Toward a
Democratic History Painting

by DeWitt Cheng

“You are Anglo-Saxons. You are armed and prepared, and you will do your duty. If you find the Negro out voting, tell him to leave the polls, and if he refuses, kill him, shoot him down. We shall win tomorrow if we have to do it with guns.” 

—Alfred Waddell

full story to come. . .

Norman Rockwell, “The Problem We All Live With,” 1964, oil on canvas, 36 x 58″. Story illustration for “Look” magazine. Courtesy of the Norman Rockwell Museum, Philadelphia