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Boy with Baby Carriage by Norman Rockwell

May 20, 1916 Issue of The Saturday Evening Post



Boy with Baby Carriage, the very first Norman Rockwell painting on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post, appeared on May 20, 1916. The painting was an instant success...
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This painting is also called Salutation.

This illustration propelled Rockwell on the road to financial success, artistic recognition and popular acclaim. Rockwell viewed the Post as the best place to display what his talents and hard work could accomplish.

Nervous Norman Rockwell

Rockwell was very nervous about presenting his paintings to the editor of The Saturday Evening Post, George Horace Lorimer. Mr. Lorimer had a reputation of being very no-nonsense. Rockwell actually worried about being tossed out of Lorimer's office.

Well, he needn't have worried. Mr. Lorimer loved the two paintings Rockwell presented and bought them on the spot for $75.00 each. That would be over $1000.00 each in today's money. Quite a sum for a virtually unknown artist!

Indeed, that meeting was the start of a relationship that lasted 47 years and over 300 paintings!

Boy with Baby Carriage or Salutation

The picture shows three young boys on a Sunday afternoon.

Two boys are off to play baseball. They are dressed in baseball uniforms with baseball caps and baseball gloves. Both are making goofy faces and gestures to the third boy.

The third boy, dressed in his Sunday best clothes, has his baby sister in a baby carriage taking a stroll. He also has a baby bottle in his breast pocket. He looks livid about the other boys' demeaning gestures.

Judging by the way his hat strap is flying backwards, the third boy is pushing the stroller past his tormentors as fast as he can!

When he was painting the three boys in this illustration, Rockwell only used one model, Billy Paine. Billy was Rockwell's favorite model for many years. He appeared in many of Rockwell's works...
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The May 20, 1916 Saturday Evening Post cover by Norman Rockwell entitled Boy and Baby Carriage

Norman Rockwell's Boy with Baby Carriage or Salutation (1916)

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