Norman Rockwell
The Gossips (#23/200), 1975
Lithograph on paper
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collection
Gift of Brenda and Russell L Frank
2021.05.011

Image description: This lithograph shows fifteen scenes of pairs of people gossiping. The heads of the people are facing each other. There are five rows.

From left to right:
Row 1:  a light-haired woman in a hat and a dark-haired woman, two dark-haired women the one on the left wearing a hat, the same dark-haired woman wearing the hat and an elderly white-haired man with a pipe in his mouth

Row 2: The same elderly white-haired man and a dark-haired woman with a hat both are laughing, a dark-haired woman and a surprised younger woman wearing a kerchief  on the right, the younger woman and a thin dark-haired woman wearing glasses both on the telephone

Row 3: two dark-haired women on the telephone, a dark- and a light-haired woman both on the telephone, a light-haired woman looking over her shoulder at a young dark-haired man

Row 4: the same young dark-haired and an elderly dark-haired woman wearing glasses, the elderly dark-haired woman and a younger man wearing a cap, the younger man in the cap and a balding man with a cigar in his mouth

Row 5: the balding man and an elderly man with a dark hat, the man with the dark hat and a man with a light hat, the man with the light hat and the light-haired woman who was the first to start the gossip   (written by Andrea Noonoo)