A Kind Word For Norman Rockwell

... arriving here, as a twenty-two-year-old Dutch stowaway, in 1926. (He reminisced, "My Communist friends in Greenwich Village said America is a lousy country. I told them they were nuts.") De Kooning emboldened me to write something that was in the ...

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