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Job: 11803 Title: #218076# Drawing Lessons From The Famous Artists School (Rockport)
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Much in Rockwell’s art is inspired by autobiography. “I once did
a cover showing a father seeing his son o to college,” he wrote,
referring to Breaking Home Ties, a cover illustration for the Saturday
Evening Post. “That year my three boys had gone away and I’d had an
empty feeling — it took me a while to adjust without them. This poi-
gnancy was what I wanted to get across in the picture. But there was
humor in it too,” Rockwell reflected. “I put a funny kind of suit on the
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