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The Problem We All Live With Signed Print
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The Problem We All Live With by Norman Rockwell, originally created as a story illustration for Look Magazine, January 14, 1964.
Measuring 17 x 27 inches, this mounted print is personally signed by Rockwell in permanent ink in the lower left. Part of a unique selection of exclusive signed copies donated to Norman Rockwell Museum Store, this item was not created through established limited edition printmakers like Atelier Ettinger Inc. or Circle Gallery, but rather appears to be taken from an oversized book collection mounted on foam core board and has not been conserved, with apparent creases over the U.S. Marshals on the right, and young girl at center, as pictured.
The Problem We All Live With was published prominently as a double-page centerfold in Look’s January 14th, 1964 issue – a year that marked the 10th anniversary of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling declaring racial segregation unconstitutional.
The symbolic work, proposed by Rockwell to Look art director Allen Hurlburt, seems to reflect upon the experiences and sacrifices of four Black children who become the first to attend all-white schools in New Orleans. In keeping with his interest in using local models, Rockwell invited the young Linda Gunn, the child of a friend and neighbor, to pose for his painting.
Today, the title remains one of Rockwell's most enduringly poignant images of American culture.
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