Catching the Big One Color:Blue was Rockwell's 271st cover for

was Rockwell's 271st cover for the newspaper and the second painting out of five for the magazines cover in 1953

Doctor and the Doll

With only three characters this was one of Rockwell's simplest paintings

One of Rockwell's later paintings

the detail of a simpler time

Catching the Big One Color:Blue was Rockwell's 271st cover forDescription: Norman Rockwell's painting, Catch the Big One, was featured on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post on August 3rd, 1929. The scene was set in a rural landscape with a man and a boy fishing. Rockwell was quoted as saying, "I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be and so painted only the ideal aspects of it pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self centered mothers. Only foxy grandpas who