J.C. Leyendecker at the New-York Historical Society
Inspiration is what motivates the artist to do a painting — but one could do a perfectly fine painting without inspiration.
We love Norman Rockwell but are well accustomed to the condescension with which his work is regarded in the art world where being called an illustrator is a put-down.
Weiss’s articles about Harvey Dunn and Peggy Root and his lecture on painting familiar places.
American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell is an impeccably researched and highly readable biography of a man that many Americans feel they already know.
“If I had any flair and ability as an artist, it lay with interpreting people, whether the cowboy or the pretty girl. I called it “cowboys and cleavage.” —Everett Raymond Kinstler