Three years ago, during the last time I visited the Norman Rockwell Museum, this particular photo took my fancy. The poor boy
in this 1919 work for the Saturday Evening Post, when you think about
it, doesn’t do anything that adults wouldn’t if they had their way. He’s
exhausted, and he’d just feel so much better if he could take off his hat, shoes
and socks. Anyway, Rover here will wake him up. Right?
This work had
gone missing in a private home in Cherry Hill, NJ back in 1976. At the time of
my visit, it had only been about half a year when the FBI had recovered it. The
museum got this as a result of a loan from its current owner. Since 2017,
thousands of visitors had the opportunity to see this again!
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