KMKK_KTL_006 ROSIE THE RIVETER / VÄÄTSA THE SNOWGRANNY'S PRISONERS
Norman Rockwell and Mary Keefe, 1950 / Don Armando Sinitanu von Massau and Vello Süütus, 2024
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Cesar Perez
11. jaanuar
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Photographer unknown
Norman Rockwell and Mary Keefe, 1950
Mary Doyle Keefe, a telephone operator and neighbor of Norman Rockwell, was the model for "Rosie the Riveter", Rockwell's iconic painting that made its first appearance on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post, on Memorial Day, May 29, 1943
Painted during the United States' involvement in World War II, Rockwell's illustration features a brawny woman taking her lunch break with a rivet gun on her lap, beneath her a copy of Hitler's manifesto "Mein Kampf", and a lunch pail labled "Rosie". American women were instrumental in the WWII war effort: with ever-growing orders for war materials, combined with so many men overseas fighting the war, women were called upon to work in ways previously reserved only for men
Rockwell based the pose to match Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling painting of the prophet Isaiah
Rockwell painted his "Rosie" as a larger woman than his model, and he later phoned to apologize. The Post's cover image proved hugely popular, and the magazine loaned it to the U.S. Treasury Department for the duration of the war, for use in war bond drives
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