This Oil Painting Reflects Woman Relaxing with Tea After Shopping Sold for $187,500 US
Tea is the most popular beverage in the world after water. Most of the teas were consumed within producing nations like China & India. Few centuries back, commercialization of tea was initiated by Europeans. By the way, as CBC had reported, Woman Relaxing with Tea After Shopping. The central image of tired shopper is of Rockwell’s oil painting. It recently sold at auction for a premium of $187,500 US. (Atlantic Advocate/Sotheby’s/Norman Rockwell Museum Collections). In an era when there was no graphic designing techniques, the popular Saturday Evening Post cover artist Norman Rockwell created a series of oil paintings in the 1950s of people enjoying a certain made-in-New Brunswick tea brand: Red Rose.
Those oil paintings include,
1. A tired shopper
Image Credit: CBC
We can see the bottom of her shoe and it’s worn. It indicates that she’s a hard working lady. But she’s lying back in a rocking chair in a meditative moment with a box of Red Rose tea in her lap.
2. A doctor on a house call
3. A “housewife” on the phone
4. A “young husband” checking a shopping list with a box of Red Rose in his grocery bag
5. A perspiring man
6. A pregnant woman
Graphic designer Tanya Duffy of Fredericton came across the works while flipping through old issues of the Atlantic Advocate, a general interest monthly magazine that was published in the city between 1956 and 1992.
“They say Norman Rockwell right on them, but of course it’s very obvious that it’s a Rockwell because his style is so distinct.”
Duffy was doing research for a “passion project” she’s been working on for a couple of years with art historian and curator John Leroux — a book and exhibition about the graphic design history of the province from 1945 to 2000. She hopes it will be completed next year.
Red Rose was one of two big New Brunswick tea makers at the time. The company was established by Theodore Harding Estabrooks of Wicklow in 1894.
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References
- Main Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/norman-rockwell-red-rose-ads-1.5832499
- Red Rose Tea: https://redrosetea.com/
