"Gary LaCoste had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out."
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As quoted in A Rockwell Portrait : An Intimate Biography‎ (1978) by Donald Walton, p. 198
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Norman Rockwell
Norman Percevel Rockwell (3 February 1894 – 8 November 1978) was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over nearly five decades.
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