# @normanrockwellofficial on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CSZrfjoB6Mx
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/9880623-normanrockwellofficial-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-08-10T16:51:38.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Norman Rockwell (@Normanrockwellofficial) — https://gondola.cc/Normanrockwellofficial

## Caption

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 perfecting the #composition his photographers would capture the elements of the scene at Rockwell’s direction. 

Back in the studio, the photos would be combined with his preliminary sketches to create a series of small-scale #colorstudies and #experiments , to which he added elements and details in order to create the final #composition . 

Despite adaptions of technique and certain stylistic shifts, perhaps what is most striking about Little Girl Looking Downstairs at Christmas Party are the thematic similarities – that speak to an interest in the #childhood #imagination that recurred throughout Rockwell's œuvre.

#normanrockwell #normanrockwellart #littlegirl

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littlegirl, younggirl, naturalism, imagination, impressive, composition, illustration, normanrockwellart, experiments, colorstudies, christmas, childhood, model, normanrockwell, cinematic

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