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Behatted, bespectacled beanpole with a huge a new gray trip to the Curtis The wooden box sight of a (not a baby 1954 buggy this time) is enough to get him an audience with Dower. By the time Rockwell leaves his interview, the Post has purchased two covers and commissioned three more. Marriage #1 On his way back to New Rochelle, emboldened by a check for he his pocket, travels to Atlantic City, cutest girl" he has ever dated, Irene in marriage. wire The The O'Connor, and all $150 in calls "the asks for her hand He later calls to ask that she his excitement, he has spent his bankroll.
Leyendecker and Charles Dana Gibson. To save money and time from the commute, Rockwell and Clyde Forsythe, his new rent a studio that Remington. Here, friend, celebrated cartoonist had once belonged to Frederic in this frigid, corrugated-metal icebox, Rockwell struggles with his wavering self-confidence, determined to name for himself as an illustrator of publications for adults. ) As an inspiration to himself, he paints the number "100%" in gold leaf on the top crossbar of his easel and devises a rating system for his paintings: 35 "Excellent" Forsythe is the top score and "bad" —who is a the commercial world his paintings as I — to make less a brutally He honest appraisal of each of it all.
Time Adjusting his sights upward, he targets The Saturday Evening Post, George Horace Lorimer (1868-1937), Mr. edited by Lorimer," whom Rockwell reveres and fears. "the great Forsythe encourages and goads Rockwell to prepare some sketches to show Mr. Lorimer and the Posts art director, herringbone Publishing suit and Walter H. Dower. Norman buys a black hat for his Company opposite Ties, Rockwell's art directorship at Boys Life magazine, while himself, then implores intimated by the whirl of and drawings.