Description
Painted in 1948, Rockwell had the idea for The Gossips twenty years earlier but couldn’t quite get the ending until he thought to picture himself as the subject of the gossips’ circle. He used his friends and neighbors in Arlington, Vermont as the other figures in the painting.
The lady in the middle row, both the second and third face from the left, is portrayed by Mary Rockwell, the artist’s second wife and mother of his children. And, of course, the artist himself, Rockwell is on the bottom row, the second and third faces from the right.
Author — Norman Rockwell.
