Reimagining Norman Rockwell’s America - The New York Times

In 2012, Hank Willis Thomas saw a poster of Norman Rockwell’s painting of a family seated around a holiday table, the matriarch presenting a turkey to her guests. For Mr. Thomas, a 42-year-old black artist raised in Manhattan, the pale complexions in Mr. Rockwell’s 1943 masterpiece did little to represent his experience of a diverse America. So he decided to create a tableau of his own.

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On our mindsNew York TimesNovember 15, 2018Norman Rockwell, Hank Willis Thomas, Freedom From Want, For Freedom, the new york times, Laura M. Holson