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Article: "The Rainbow at the Edge of the Shadow of the Egg".(ABOUT THE COVER)(Cover story)
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- Emerging Infectious Diseases
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- August 1, 2008
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"The Rainbow at the Edge of the Shadow of the Egg"--John Updike
"Rockwell is terrific. It's become too tedious to pretend he isn't, said art critic Peter Schjeldahl in 1999, summing up recent opinion about this well-loved American artist, whose work was dismissed by the art establishment during his lifetime (1). "Without thinking too much about it in specific terms," Rockwell said of himself, "I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed.... I guess I am a story teller" (2).
While hard at work as illustrator for The Saturday Evening Post, Encyclopaedia Britalmica, Maxwell House ...