Home Sweet Home by Norman Rockwell

August 23, 1923 Issue of Life Magazine

The alternate title for this illustration is Man on Ship with Accordion.

This was the twenty-sixth cover by Rockwell to appear on Life Magazine. A Rockwell painting only appeared twice on Life magazine's cover in 1923 and twenty-eight times in all.

Home Sweet Home

Ah, sweet dreams of home!

This sailor is wishing he were home. He is on a sailboat. Ocean voyages are lengthy enough on ships with engines. But a sailboat takes even longer.

No doubt he misses his family more than he misses his actual house. Family plus house equals home.

Today he is playing the accordion and leaning on the main sail mast. His parrot is accompanying him.

It must be one of those days at sea when the ships goes mostly on its own. One of the other sailors is asleep on the deck next to the accordion player.

I wonder who sounds better, the sailor or the parrot...
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