Check the flute, and the flooter’s hands.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/The_Love_Song_Norman_Rockwell.jpg
Cool find Jim! Thanks for sharing…it made me smile.
Eric
I was struck that the flooter was playing one of our flutes. 1926
You’re surprised that he’s playing a nineteenth century style concert flute?
Just struck. And perhaps it says something about the artist.
I believe it has a lot to do with where Rockwell lived. He is on record as saying his studio on South Street, Stockbridge, Massachussetts was his favorite. He grew up on Long Island, and spent part of his adult life there, spending summers with his parents at various New England farmhouses. This is Fluteville country, and dominated by New York flutemakers, notably the Firth, Hall, and Pond families.
When I attended a Rockwell art showing, I was struck by one scene of an office, with an unmistakeable Hall & Sons flute casually resting on a desk.
As an aside; my Grandfather grew up in Portland Maine before coming out to the West Coast as a young man. He learned the flute and fife back in Maine, and accompanied my Grandmother’s piano playing, on the flute, as part of the family’s entertainment well after World War I on a simple system flute. Eventually these ‘Family Music nights’ were pushed out by the ‘wireless’.
Bob
Bob, what would you consider to be characteristic of Hall & Son flutes? I’ve never had any experience of them - that I know of - and a quick look-see shows some pretty differing flutes on first glance. I have no way of knowing whether Google Images was serving up the real deal.
I’ve been trying to figure out how to post images, without success. But anyway, check out this page.
http://www.oldflutes.com/misc/moe.htm
Perhaps a lot of people are already familiar with it.