Brush Up On Your Constitution

On the 70^th anniversary of D-Day, here’s Rockwell’s famous Post cover Rosie the Riveter (1943).  Note the heel of her shoe balanced squarely on the spine of Mein Kampf’s tattered pages.

Rockwell borrowed  his figurative composition from Michelangelo’s Prophet Isaiah on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.  Rockwell used an iconic image ...