Faithful Friends

Faithful FriendsFrom the very beginning of Norman Rockwells career, dogs were integral to his art. Often they convey the emotion of a scene, as when a family pet bounds forward to greet a soldier returning from war, or sadly nuzzles a young man departing for college. Rockwell had a special facility with his canine models, who were sometimes his own dogs: Raleigh the German shepherd, Butch the springer spaniel, and Pitter the beagle mix. Faithful Friends reproduces

and afford

a canopy of trees

It's just a log from the woodpile

Dubey & Schaldenbrand

He first achieved success in the field of graphic design

The spaces he takes us inside range from the intimate to the vast—from the last silk flower workshop in New York’s Garment District to Buffalo’s looming grain elevators and the Paterson Great Falls Hydroelectric Plant

allowing him to depict the products of his fertile imagination with a vivid immediacy—a tendency that has continued with his watercolors

Working in both black and white and color

Animal-headed humans

and architecture

has shaped humanity are no less numerous

and William James