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Job: 11803 Title: #218076# Drawing Lessons From The Famous Artists School (Rockport)
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Norman Rockwell once said he envied students who swooned when
viewing the Mona Lisa because he never felt such passion. Rockwell
may have seen himself as a more analytical artist, such as the one ex-
amining a seventeenth-century Dutch painting in his 1955 Art Critic
(see previous spread). His original draft depicts a student examining
painter Frans Hals’s technique in a portrait of a Dutch housewife.
In that study, a landscape on an adjacent wall places the student in
a gallery of Dutch ...