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拍品专文
The present work is a study for the cover illustration of the September 14th, 1935 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.
Regarding Norman Rockwell's inspiration for this work, Laura Claridge explains that, as an adolescent, "Rockwell paid much closer attention to the women heading his classes than to the subject being taught. As an adult, he recalled with chagrin the teacher, 'Miss Genevieve Allen,' whom his class--led by him--tortured with their silly questions; and he recounted falling in love with Miss Helena Geer, she of the 'trim little feet and ample hips,' whose skirts rustled as she walked by, a 'cloyingly sweet perfume' wavering forth. Most of all, he felt understood by Miss Julia Smith, who asked him to draw holiday-colored chalk murals on the boards each season...After Rockwell's fame was well established, the then-blind school teacher wrote him a letter, asking if he remembered her. The sweet correspondence that followed spawned the idea for Rockwell's September 1935 Post cover, a tribute to schoolteachers." (Norman Rockwell: A Life, New York, 2001, pp. 80-81) Yet, despite these sentimental origins, Rockwell humorously wrote of the public's reaction, "Boy! Did I get a slew of hurt fan mail from this September 14th cover! It seemed to me that about every school teacher in the land wrote to complain of my characterization." (as quoted in A.L. Guptill, Norman Rockwell, Illustrator, New York, 1946, p. 173)
Regarding Norman Rockwell's inspiration for this work, Laura Claridge explains that, as an adolescent, "Rockwell paid much closer attention to the women heading his classes than to the subject being taught. As an adult, he recalled with chagrin the teacher, 'Miss Genevieve Allen,' whom his class--led by him--tortured with their silly questions; and he recounted falling in love with Miss Helena Geer, she of the 'trim little feet and ample hips,' whose skirts rustled as she walked by, a 'cloyingly sweet perfume' wavering forth. Most of all, he felt understood by Miss Julia Smith, who asked him to draw holiday-colored chalk murals on the boards each season...After Rockwell's fame was well established, the then-blind school teacher wrote him a letter, asking if he remembered her. The sweet correspondence that followed spawned the idea for Rockwell's September 1935 Post cover, a tribute to schoolteachers." (Norman Rockwell: A Life, New York, 2001, pp. 80-81) Yet, despite these sentimental origins, Rockwell humorously wrote of the public's reaction, "Boy! Did I get a slew of hurt fan mail from this September 14th cover! It seemed to me that about every school teacher in the land wrote to complain of my characterization." (as quoted in A.L. Guptill, Norman Rockwell, Illustrator, New York, 1946, p. 173)