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Alonzo Doby
Dr. Marsely Kehoe
ARH1000
23 October 2012
The painting that I chose form the Cummer Museum was the Second Holiday painted in
1939 by Norman Rockwell. The Second Holiday is an example of one of his illustrations
that told a story. Mr. Rockwell created an illustration for a short story in American magazine
in 1939. When he did this piece, Rockwell was telling a story. This short story took place in
a clinic in Minnesota, where an elderly couple sits in a waiting room. Avoiding eye contact,
the man and woman sit side by side as they appear to be staring into space as their arms link.
The couple appears to be thinking of their visit to the clinic as a “holiday” due the fact that it
