Art Chowder November | December, Issue 24 | Page 32

Norman
Rockwell’s
America:
THE ART OF THE COMMONPLACE
from the National Museum of American Illustration *
By Melville Holmes and Kathryn Brogdon
Norman Rockwell
“Bridge Game” - The Bid
1948, oil on canvas
46 1/2” x 38 1/2”, signed lower left
The Saturday Evening Post May 15, 1948 cover
This large painting is remarkable for the way Rockwell
set up a birds-eye view of a plausible real bridge game,
where the woman scratching her head, with likely the
winning hand, puzzles over what card to lead.
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