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Moms will be moms: artists seeking cover ideas can always look to their mothers.(THE AMERICAN ILLUSTRATORS HALL OF FAME)(Ambrose Bierce and Norman Rockwell)(Brief article)

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From: Saturday Evening Post
Date: 20080501
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A sweater, Ambrose Bierce wrote in his humorous Devil's Dictionary, is a "garment worn by a child when its mother is feeling chilly." Overdressing children, of course, is just one of many motherisms that seem to go with the job. Our overly swaddled artists grew up with a firsthand awareness of these maternal idiosyncrasies and lovingly (if laughingly) portrayed them in their cover paintings.

Norman Rockwell's ardently religious mom was so eager to lead that she led him every Sunday morning on a route to church which wound through a seamy part of town. The young Rockwell found ...

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