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Outward Bound (The Stay at Homes) Signed Print
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This limited collotype entitled Outward Bound (The Stay at Homes) measures 35 X 29 inches and is hand signed in permanent marker by Norman Rockwell on the lower corner. The print has wonderful detail, vibrant color and is listed in excellent condition.
Over a forty-nine-year period beginning in 1924, Norman Rockwell contributed thirty seven illustrations to Ladies' Home Journal. Some accompanied fictional stories, and others such as this, told their own story published with the title only. The motif of children and the elderly was common throughout Rockwell's career. Rockwell enjoyed working with children and older adults. Because they were less self-conscious and less concerned about dignity, he said, they were freer to act out the feelings he wanted them to express and less worried about how they might be portrayed.
The foreground of the painting evokes a New England setting. In the summer of 1912, Rockwell spent three months studying painting with Charles Hawthorne in Provincetown, Massachusetts, which was then a Portuguese fishing village. Hawthorne had studied plein air painting (painting out-of-doors) with William Merritt Chase. In Rockwell's painterly treatment of the roofs, waves, trees, grass and man's trousers, we see the influence of Chase's impressionistic style.
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