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Little Girl Observing Lovers on a Train

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jacket hangs above the couple. The focus point of the painting is a six-year-old girl in the seat in front of the couple who is next to her mother. Unnoticed by the pair, she is kneeling on her seat and watching them. She appears to be uninterested in the intimate moment. The arm of the conductor,
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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. The man's
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Rockwell came up with the idea for the painting when traveling by train with servicemen and their families. The models posed for the reference photos in an unused rail car on a siding of the
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Popular-art historian Christopher Finch found the painting to be a good example of Rockwell's matured style and compared the painting to a
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King, Claire Sisco (2016). "American Queerer: Norman Rockwell and the Art of Queer Feminist Critique".
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Sailor and the hair of his partner can be seen in the seat behind the couple.
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Mecklenburg, Virginia; Spielberg, Steven; Lucas, George (26 July 2010).
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The pencil sketch for this painting is in the personal collection of
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with a ticket in hand, can be seen in the background. The
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The painting has been in the permanent collection of the
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Works originally published in The Saturday Evening Post
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Index


Norman Rockwell
The Saturday Evening Post
Rutland Railway
Army Air Force
"Dixie Cup" hat
United States Navy
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Memorial Art Gallery
Rochester, New York
George Lucas
Steven Spielberg
Smithsonian American Art Museum



Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg
Social History of the United States: The 1940s
ISBN
978-1-59884-128-2
Norman Rockwell: The Underside of Innocence
ISBN
978-0-226-31440-2
doi
10.1080/07491409.2016.1165778
S2CID
146889682
ISBN
978-0789204097
"MAG Collection - Soldier on Leave"

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