Norman Rockwell (American, 1894 - 1978). "Saturday People". Original color collotype. Printed 1973. Signed in pencil, lower right. Light cream wove paper. The full sheet. Fine impression. Very good to fine condition. Norman Percevel Rockwell was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for "The Saturday Evening Post" magazine for more than four decades. "Saturday People" is an oil painting that Rockwell painted for McCall's magazine's cover of October 1966. The collotype was published by Circle Gallery, Ltd. and printed by Arthur Jaffe, New York. In May 1966, Rockwell began an illustration for 'The Saturday People,' a short piece of fiction for McCall’s magazine. The story, written by Rita Madocs, relates the observations and fantasies of thirteen-year-old Leslie, who lives with her widowed mother in midtown Manhattan. The stress of losing her father and ambivalence toward her mother’s suitor inspire fantasies, as well as fears, which are given form in Rockwell’s painting. Saturday visits by the mother’s suitor are announced by the presence of his hat left on a hall table. The hat, which Leslie describes as “like some velvety underground animal, a dark-green Tyrolean mole, perhaps, a blushing feather behind one of its concealed ears,” appears twice in Rockwell’s painting. Eleven celebrities who occupy Leslie’s imaginative fantasies are pictured with Leslie. The wide, 24 x 41 inch painting was published as a two-page spread in McCall’s, large enough for readers to identify the many celebrities who move through Rockwell’s picture from left to right. The not-so-famous, including Rockwell (understating his own celebrity) and his wife Molly, walk from right to left. Moving from left to right: Actor David McCallum; New York City Mayor John Lindsay; Soprano Maria Callas; Actor Sean Connery; Pianist Van Cliburn; Drummer Ringo Starr; Prince Philip of England; New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller; Comedian Jonathan Winters; Composer/Conductor Leonard Bernstein; Actor Tallulah Bankhead. Image copyright © The Norman Rockwell Estate / © SEPS: Licensed by Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, Indiana. Overall size: 24 x 30 in. (610 x 762 mm). [28904] |700| {R100} (TL5) tzzz~tuzz