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Bully Before by Norman Rockwell

June 4, 1921 Issue of The Country Gentleman



Bully Before, this Norman Rockwell painting, appeared on the cover of The Country Gentleman published June 4, 1921.

This illustration was the twenty-eighth Country Gentleman cover by Norman Rockwell. Rockwell painted thirty-five covers for The Country Gentleman starting in August 1917, the first Cousin Reginald cover, and continuing through April 1922.

This was also the first installment of a two parter -continued next week- cover series. Click here for the next installment - Bully After.

Bully Before

Norman Rockwell gives us another glimpse of childhood problems with this illustration.

Here is a younger boy being picked on by an older bully. Most all readers can relate to one role or the other.

The bully is much taller than the younger boy. He has taken the boy's straw hat off and is holding it behind his back out of the boy's reach. He is also stepping on one of the boy's toes on his bare feet. The bully is dressed in tattered clothes.

The younger boy looks frightened or surprised. He is trying to remember how his father told him to deal with bullies.

The dogs in the painting are the give-away of how this confrontation will end.

How will the confrontation end? Rockwell answers in next week's issue .


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