Little Girl Observing Lovers on a Train
Little Girl Observing Lovers on a Train, also known as Travel Experience or Voyeur, is a painting by American illustrator Norman Rockwell. It was originally created for the cover of The Saturday Evening Post on 12 August 1944.
Background
Rockwell came up with the idea for the painting when traveling by train with servicemen and their families.
Painting
Little Girl Observing Lovers on a Train depicts a crowded passenger train car. A young faceless couple can be seen cuddling in one of the seats; their heads are together and their legs are intertwined on top of some luggage in the seat facing directly in front of them.
Popular-art historian Christopher Finch found the painting to be a good example of Rockwell's matured style and compared the painting to a Henri Cartier-Bresson photo.[5]
The painting has been in the permanent collection of the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, New York since 1974. [6]
The pencil sketch for this painting is in the personal collection of George Lucas and was included in fellow filmmaker Steven Spielberg's and his 2010 show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.[7][1]
References
- ^ a b c Mecklenburg, Virginia; Spielberg, Steven; Lucas, George (26 July 2010). Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Event occurs at 18:23. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
- ISBN 978-1-59884-128-2.
- ISBN 978-0-226-31440-2.
- S2CID 146889682.
- ISBN 978-0789204097.
- ^ "MAG Collection - Soldier on Leave". Retrieved 2023-11-08.
- ^ Duin, Steve (10 January 2020). "Norman Rockwell: George Lucas and Steven Spielberg open their vaults". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on 23 May 2020. Retrieved 19 April 2020.