LITTLE GIRL LOOKING DOWNSTAIRS AT CHRISTMAS PARTY - 1964 Painted 45 years later, and at the height of his success, is Little Girl Looking Downstairs at Christmas Party (1964). The work was a cover #illustration for McCall’s, a publication that billed itself as the "First Magazine for Women." The painting shows a #younggirl seated on the darkened stairs of her home as she watches a brightly lit #christmas party below. By the time Rockwell made Little Girl Looking Downstairs at Christmas Party he had transitioned to a more naturalistic, almost #cinematic style than what is demonstrated in The Little Model, influenced partly by his incorporation of new technologies into his artistic process. Rockwell had begun to use the 35mm camera as a tool for capturing models poses as early as 1937. To achieve this #impressive sense of #naturalism , Rockwell positioned the young #model at the top of the stairs in his own home and assembled a group of friends and neighbors downstairs. After ...