Well, certainly, I can’t. This painting, “Southern Justice”, was painted by Rockwell in 1965 to commemorate the murders of three civil rights workers in Neshoba, Mississippi—Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Cheney. I was entirely unaware of its existence until I read a very long article on Rockwell that appeared recently in Vox, “The awakening…
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Norman Rockwell, Social Justice Warrior
Not too long ago, I belonged to an online group, to which I no longer belong. Someone posted a collection of Norman Rockwell’s still famous (I guess) Saturday Evening Post covers and, as I glanced through them, I grew a little irritated by the relentless parade of happy, fifties, middle-class WASPs. I actually grew up…