I worked at a museum gift shop during a huge normal rockwell retrospective and I really enjoyed how his pro civil rights paintings forced viewers to question their notions of patriotism, what is "wholesome" and what is American.
Elana Levin
I interviewed Daisy Rockwell last fall about the DHS/ICE recruitment ads featuring Norman Rockwell's paintings (without permission), and the disgust the family felt about this hijacking of his legacy. www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...
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Trump uses the artist’s work—like other cultural icons—to promote Gestapo tactics and nativist ideas.
