Information from local clubs Andante Music Club, Bella Vista Civil War Round Table, Bella Vista Chapter 1547 of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association, General Lafayette Chapter of Sons of the America Revolution, American Legion Auxiliary Unit 27, Northwest Arkansas Aquarium Society, Northwest Arkansas Aquarium Society and others.
Information from local clubs Andante Music Club, Bella Vista Civil War Round Table, Bella Vista Chapter 1547 of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association, General Lafayette Chapter of Sons of the America Revolution, American Legion Auxiliary Unit 27, Northwest Arkansas Aquarium Society, Northwest Arkansas Aquarium Society and others.
Charlotte Sorenson was riffling through a newspaper one morning in December when she recognized someone in a gallery advertisement for a Norman Rockwell painting that she had not seen in years: herself.
There she was, a teenager in a cluster of schoolmates in graduation-day caps and gowns. Rockwell had called the painting âBright Future for Banking.â
Sorenson, who is 81 and lives in Boulder, Colo., had posed for Rockwell when she was a 15-year-old high school sophomore in Stockbridge, where Rockwell lived and worked from 1953 until his death in 1978. As the star illustrator for The Saturday Evening Post, he was known for summoning his neighbors to his studio to be models â dozens over the years. They were the faces in the quintessentially American images that the public loved but critics disdained. Sometimes, he supplied the accessories at his easel, long after his subjects had left his studio. But for âBright Future,â Sorenson said, he had a cap and gown a
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Carrots does not want to be called Carrots. She was emphatic about that during a mini-reunion that I hosted.
Carrots oops, Carolyn Fabricant, who now lives in North Adams, Mass. was one of the high school students in a Norman Rockwell painting called “Bright Future in Banking” that I wrote about last month. The article said that Rockwell often asked neighbors in Stockbridge, Mass., to pose for him after he moved there in 1953. Nearly 70 years later, one of them Charlotte Sorenson, who now lives in Boulder, Colo. had recognized herself when she saw “Bright Future” in a newspaper advertisement for an art gallery that was selling it.
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