“Home on Leave” by Norman Rockwell on the cover of “The Saturday Evening Post,” September 15, 1945.

            Norman Rockwell painted “Home on Leave” one month after the official end of World War II.  He captures the nation’s collective relief in an idyllic scene of a young sailor in uniform napping peacefully in a hammock under a tree, safe and sound.  Rockwell went to Williams College in search of the right model to sit for the painting and spotted Leo Maguire on campus.  According to Lorraine Lauzon, a childhood friend of Maguire, Leo was a student from Lynne, Massachusetts who had enrolled in the Navy immediately following high school.  When the Post cover was published, Leo Maguire became a local celebrity.  

[Source: Sotheby’s, where the painting sold for 4.52 million dollars in 2007]

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