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Shuffleton's Barbershop Signed Print
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Norman Rockwell painted this scene of his hometown barbershop in Arlington, Vt. for the April 29, 1950 issue of The Saturday Evening Post cover. Rob Shuffleton, the shop's owner posed with the fiddler in the back room. There are clues throughout the painting that reveal Shuffleton's character. Rockwell's greatest challenge with this piece was creating the glass window of the shop. The window puts the viewers outside and prevents them from engaging with the musical scene in the background. However, Rockwell draws viewers in by his use of light. When describing the importance lighting Rockwell wrote that "working from photographs has many advantages. There were details, accidents of light, which I'd missed when I'd been able to make only quick sketches of a setting. For example in Rob Shuffleton's barbershop in East Arlington, Vermont: where Rob hung his combs, his rusty old clippers, the way the light fell across the magazine rack, his moth-eaten push broom leaning against the display cases of candy and ammunition, the cracked leather seat of the barber chair with the stuffing poking through along the edges over the nickel-plated frame. A photograph catches all that." -Norman Rockwell, My Adventures as Illustrator.
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