I just love Norman Rockwell's work.
First published #OnThisDay for the September 25, 1954 cover of The Saturday Evening Post is Rockwell's "Breaking Home Ties."
"I once did a cover showing a father seeing his son off to college. That year my three boys had gone away and I'd had an empty feeling it took me a while to adjust without them. This poignancy was what I wanted to get across in the picture...I put a funny kind of suit on the boy because he was a ranch boy leaving home for the first time. I got most of my fan letters about the dog. You see the father couldn't show how he felt about the boy's leaving. The dog did." -Norman Rockwell
