"There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas
morning and not be a child."
Deborah Solomon:
“...Rockwell had celebrated the small and local, not the
global and cinematic. But the emphasis on the common man that was central to
America’s sense of self in 20th-century America gave way, in the
television-centered 1960s, to the worship of celebrities, whose life stories
and marital crises replaced those of the proverbial next-door neighbor as
subjects of interest and gossip...”
"Is He Coming?", 1919
Artist: Norman
Rockwell
Courtesy: Norman Rockwell Museum