English
Bostwick Studio, New York
Norman Rockwell (left) and older brother Jarvis Waring Rockwell II (right), 1895
Photograph
Norman Rockwell Museum Collection, Norman Rockwell Art Collection Trust, RC.1993.7
AUDIO TRANSCRIPT
Well, there I might explain the type of kid I was, or the type of kid I remember myself to have been. I wasn’t a regular Huckleberry Finn or Tom Sawyer. I don’t think … I wasn’t an excessively brave kid or a very … I wasn’t unhealthy, but I wasn’t very healthy. I wore glasses at a fairly early age. My brother was quite the opposite and I think this had a lot to do with my life. My brother was a … Well, he later on played semi-professional football and baseball and he was the real boy’s boy. I was always interested in drawing and I always was very ambitious to achieve something. I think part of this was the fact that my brother was so athletic and was so adventurous and fearless that I found my compensation some other way.