The Gossips (1948) was painted by the American artist Norman Rockwell (1894-1978).
It shows 15 figures, each portrayed twice, as part of a chain receiving and passing on a tidbit of gossip. Each person represents a unique personality when it comes to gossiping, and Rockwell captures each expression in detail. It’s the first person (top left) who starts the gossip, and it finally arrives to the man who the gossip is about (we can see him in the last two pairs at the bottom right), who then confronts the person starting the gossip.
Rockwell was a popular illustrator for the Saturday Evening Post, and his real talent was to capture a complex societal issue in a single image. It took him a long time to come up with these brilliant images. In this case, it took him 20 to 30 years to come up with this illustration. But it became very popular, and the painting sold in 2013 for 8.5 million USD.
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