FAMOUS U.S. PAINTINGS

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27603, 9 March 1955, Page 12

FAMOUS U.S. PAINTINGS

Artist’s Gift Of Prints

LETTER TO CHRISTCHURCH CONNOISSEUR

Mr Norman Rockwell, an eminent American artist, who often illustrates the front page of the “Saturday Evening Post,” a Philadelphia weekly magazine, is sending prints of his Four Freedoms paintings to a Christchurch doctor;

The doctor was so impressed with one of Mr Rockwell’s front-page illustrations in the “Saturday Evening Post” that he wrotd' to the journal asking whether it was possible to obtain a print. He received no reply, but when he noticed a report in “The Press” recently that Mr Rockwell’s young son had suffered a rapier wound in the heart while fencing, the doctor decided to write directly to the artist, who lives in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

In a letter to the Christchurch man, Mr Rockwell promises to send the prints. He says: “A letter such as yours is most gratifying, particularly when it comes from so far away.” In addition to expressing gratification at the doctor’s interest in his work and the hope that he will be pleased with the prints, Mr Rockwell says that his son’s condition is rapidly improving.