Tom Sawyer Whitewashing the Fence
lithograph - 1936 - detail
lithograph - 1936 - detail
NORMAN ROCKWELL
From an exhibition organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum :
In 1935, George Macy, the publisher of the Heritage Press and Limited
Editions Club books, invited Norman Rockwell to illustrate Mark Twain’s
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Rockwell visited Hannibal, Missouri, Twain’s boyhood town, to find
authentic details to include in his work. Twain’s vivid descriptions of
character, setting and mood were an inspiration to the illustrator, who
considered each of the writer’s scenes to be “complete and perfect to
the last detail.”
