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Grandfather and Snowman by Norman RockwellDecember 20, 1919 Issue of The Saturday Evening Post
Grandfather and Snowman, this Norman Rockwell painting, appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post published December 20, 1919... The alternate title for this painting is Gramps Encounters Gramps. This painting was Rockwell's twenty-fifth overall picture featured on the cover of The Post and the eleventh Rockwell cover in 1919. The Post featured a Rockwell illustration on its cover eleven times in 1919. Grandfather and SnowmanThis Norman Rockwell painting is one of everyone's all time favorites. This is one of the paintings that a person thinks of when Rockwell's name is mentioned. So simple, and yet, so timeless. Gramps is out for a stroll in the snow. He is thoroughly prepared. He carries a basket with food and his umbrella. He is dressed for the cold weather, having donned a heavy topcoat, mittens, scarf and fur hat. Though we cannot see them, he undoubtedly is wearing his snow boots as well. Gramps is enjoying his trip in the snow. Then he spies an odd-looking fellow. This fellow is all white. Why, it is a snowman named Granpa!
Grandfather and Snowman was only one of 322 Norman Rockwell Saturday Evening Post covers;
Here is the list of Norman Rockwell Saturday Evening Post cover illustrations.
Here is the complete list of all Norman Rockwell magazine covers. The snowman is not dressed for the cold at all. Then again, snowmen like the cold. He is wearing an old straw hat (we have seen this same straw hat in numerous Rockwell paintings) and a bandanna around his neck. Someone has carved "GRANPA" in his chest. He also wears glasses and has a goatee. And he is smoking a pipe that isn't quite lit. But, Lordy, I hope Grandfather's ears aren't really THAT big! Gramps looks really tickled to meet Granpa. I'm sure that he would shake hands if Granpa had any. The little boy hiding behind the snowman is really the star of this painting. Maybe he wasn't sure how Gramps would react to his caricature. The next frame would surely show him jumping out from behind the snowman and yelling "Surprise!"
This snowman has been a lot of fun work for him and now he gets to enjoy Gramps encountering Gramps...
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