I was intrigued by this painting, " Second Holiday," that I saw yesterday afternoon at the Cummer Museum in Jacksonville, Florida. Norman Rockwell created this illustration for a short story in American Magazine in 1939. The short story takes place at a clinic in Minnesota, where an elderly couple sits in a waiting room.
Avoiding eye contact, the man and woman sit side by side and stare into space as their arms intertwine. The couple thinks of their visit to the clinic as a “holiday” due to the fact that it is only their “second” time away from their hometown in decades. And although the elderly woman is sick and dying, both the husband and the wife refuse to accept this reality in order to protect and support one other.
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