SB,
Critic Theodore F. Wolff wrote in 1989:
"There can be no doubt that Rockwell's production was uneven, that most of it was trivial, even, at times, embarrassingly hackneyed. He had a difficult time avoiding the obvious and overly sentimental: little boys were invariably freckled and gawky, had big ears, and loved baseball; little old ladies were kindly and loved nothing so much as to give cookies to children and to beam at evidence of young love. And everyone was God-fearing, patriotic, hardworking, and respectful of motherhood, apple pie, and the sanctity of marriage."
Overly sentimental? Not so much in his 1964 "Murder in Mississippi."
He had his critics, but probably not so much to his compositions.
Bloody critics!
Tom,
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... that's a good one, Tom.
Have you pondered the Cosmology, Gender and Aesthetic Imagination in your work?
"Defying the visual bias of art history, a number of artists and writers since the nineteenth century have concerned themselves with the possibility of engaging the proximity senses in art. In 1836, for example Theophile Thor