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The Old Couple
- Norman Rockwell
- Jul 27, 2016
- 1 min read
Norman Rockwell's painting for the Literary Digest cover, April 15, 1922.
Even as a young man, Rockwell was capable of sympathetic studies of older people, as is evident from this painting. Often he chose to bring age and youth together, but here he gives us a straightforward study of an elderly couple, and his tenderness towards one another. The era of their youth is evoked with the aid of the gold frame he has painted around them, and of the sketched-in background that recalls elements from late-Victorian decorative idioms.
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