Norman Rockwell 1894-1978

Charles L. Flint Antiques, Lenox, Massachusetts

Victor Clyde Forsythe (1885-1962) was a painter of desert landscapes who started out as a highly successful cartoonist.  The two artists met sometime during World War I, when Rockwell was a struggling newcomer.  "Vic" became the younger artist's mentor and close friend.  It was Forsythe who introduced Rockwell to the "Saturday Evening Post", in fact.  They even shared Frederick Remington's New Rochelle, New York studio for a time.  At the height of Forsythe's fame as a cartoonist in the 1920s, he chose to give-up the good life and head back to California, where he  carried out his long-held dream to live in and paint the California desert and its denizens.