UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
Las Vegas, Nevada
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MessageMaking Room: Works from the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collection
- August 30, 2022 - January 28, 2023
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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
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)
- Edition: 23/200
- Framed: 28.25 x 26.25 in
- Created: 1975
- Inventory Number: 2021.05.011