Norman Rockwell Museum Store - The Problem We All Live With

The Problem We All Live With

Norman Rockwell Museum Store is your home to find Norman Rockwell’s Ruby Bridges portrait, The Problem We All Live With prints, posters, cards, books, gifts, and so much more! The Problem We All Live With museum quality custom giclee prints are available in several different sizes, on paper or canvas, framed or unframed, with several frame styles to choose from. Pre-framed and ready to ship offset prints are also available directly from our museum store, along with other exclusive The Problem We All Live With gifts. Your purchase directly supports Norman Rockwell Museum, and the legacy of Norman Rockwell.

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. Norman Rockwell’s The Problem We All Live With original oil painting was the first painting purchased by Norman Rockwell Museum permanent collection in 1975, and has toured in the exhibition Norman Rockwell: Imagining Freedom.