Hope Ha, 11th Grade Baby New Year Ready for War is a magazine cover for The Saturday Evening Post by J.C. Leyendecker. The cover depicts a blue-eyed, blonde-haired baby sitting on top of a suitcase with British flag colors, along with a small satchel. The baby looks up through a gas mask, while clutching an…

Dora Usdan, 11th Grade The Ticket Seller by Norman Rockwell was illustrated as a cover for The Saturday Evening Post published on April 24th, 1937. The painting depicts a man in a Ticket Agency surrounded by posters advertising travel destinations in Europe and around the world. Some of the destinations listed are “Paris,” “Mountains” and…

David Mellgard, 12th Grade “The Funeral Oration for Poland,” or simply “The Funeral Oration,” by Hugh M. Hutton (1898-1976) is an editorial cartoon made for the Philadelphia Inquirer. After two short stints drawing illustrations and comics for New York World and the United Features Syndicate, Hutton joined the Inquirer in 1934. There, he became famous…

Astrid Weinberg, 11th Grade Published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1943, Norman Rockwell’s artistic interpretation of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms became a nationwide phenomenon and a patriotic symbol of support for the war effort. This particular image, titled Freedom From Fear, depicts a white family of four in a child’s bedroom, saying…

Ariella Rosen, Freshman at Barnard College Marble Champion, a painting by Norman Rockwell, depicts three children crouching before a curved line that is drawn on the ground. There is a boy in white shirt, whose golden hair is bright beneath his red cap; there is a dark-haired boy in a black and white striped polo…