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Problem We All Live With Postcard
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Norman Rockwell's The Problem We All Live With, LOOK Magazine, January 14, 1964.
Standard size postcard measures 4" inches by 6" printed on heavy weight card stock.
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, Ruby Bridges, Gail Etienne, Tessie Prevost, and Leona Tate, who later became known as the New Orleans Four. 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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