Trove of Army’s art awaits a new museum: Four Rockwells top a list of 16,000 pieces
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Clifford Armion
le 16/01/2014
Activer le mode zenMichael E. Ruane
The story goes that Norman Rockwell, seeking authenticity, wanted to rip holes in the soldiers’s shirt. The GI said fine. Rockwell asked to smear mud on his face and hands. Not a problem.But when the artist asked to rub dirt on his machine gun, the soldier refused: No proper gunner could tolerate that. So Rockwell portrayed the GI as tattered and begrimed, but with his big gray Browning machine gun sleek and clean.
This rare and meticulous World War II painting, by an artist whose work routinely fetches tens of millions of dollars, hangs not in a museum or gallery, but in a state-of-the-art Army conservation center at Fort Belvoir.
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"Trove of Army’s art awaits a new museum: Four Rockwells top a list of 16,000 pieces", La Clé des Langues [en ligne], Lyon, ENS de LYON/DGESCO (ISSN 2107-7029), janvier 2014. Consulté le 19/04/2024. URL: https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/archives/archives-revue-de-presse/trove-of-army-s-art-awaits-a-new-museum-four-rockwells-top-a-list-of-16-000-pieces