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Model for Rockwell's Rosie the Riveter painting dies at 92
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The model for Norman Rockwell's 1943 Rosie the Riveter painting that symbolized the millions of American women who went to work on the homefront during World War II has died. Mary Doyle Keefe was 92.
Mary Ellen Keefe says her mother died Tuesday in Simsbury, Connecticut, after a brief illness.
Keefe grew up in Arlington, Vermont, where she met Rockwell and posed for his painting when she was a 19-year-old telephone operator. The painting was on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post on May 29, 1943.
Mary Ellen Keefe says her mother died Tuesday in Simsbury, Connecticut, after a brief illness.
Keefe grew up in Arlington, Vermont, where she met Rockwell and posed for his painting when she was a 19-year-old telephone operator. The painting was on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post on May 29, 1943.
http://news.yahoo.com/model-rockwells-rosie-riveter-painting-dies-92-182228192.html
RIP
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