Norman Rockwell's The Runaway

Norman Rockwell was a man of the early 20th century. He often painted things that we today see as classic America. He created wonderful images of simple and carefree times where family was important and the world was a safe place even for runaway children like the one in his painting "The Runaway". He painted the America that was and that he had grown to love. He was either unaware or did not care about the rising tide. Rockwell’s “The Runaway” overlooks the fundamental rift that was rising in America throughout the late 1950s – an emerging counter (no pun intended) culture that was not concerned with how things were in America, but rather how they are. “