Author: ROCKWELL, NORMAN
Title: The Saturday Evening Post, May 29, 1943 - Norman Rockwell's "Rosie the Riveter" Cover Vol. 215, No. 48
Description: Philadelphia: The Curtis Publishing Company, 1943. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Illustrated by Rockwell, Norman. Classic Norman Rockwell cover illustration of "Rosie The Riveter". "As WWII drew millions of American men and boys from their jobs and professions women took over positions they previously occupied. This portrait honored those working women. Posed like Michelangelo's Prophet Isaiah with a U.S. flag behind her, muscular Rosie eats her lunch with rivet gun on her lap and feet symbolically planted on a copy of Mein Kampf." - paraphrased from page 211 of "Norman Rockwell and The Saturday Evening Post, The Middle Years, 1928-1943", by Dr. Donald R. Stoltz and Marshal L. Stoltz. Light overall wear. Lacking pages 15-18, 45-52, and 67-68, and cartoons clipped from pages 59, 65, 71, 79, 81, 93 and 95. The iconic cover of this issue presents very well and will look marvelous when framed.; Cover Photo; Folio. Fair .

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