{"id":17781,"date":"2026-06-25T16:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T16:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=17781"},"modified":"2026-06-25T16:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T16:03:18","slug":"norman-rockwell-people-watched-in-the-west-wing-lobby-now-those-sketches-are-on-public-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=17781","title":{"rendered":"Norman Rockwell people-watched in the West Wing lobby. Now those sketches are on public display"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><p><strong>By DARLENE SUPERVILLE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 For more than 40 years, sketches by American illustrator Norman Rockwell of scenes from the White House visitor\u2019s lobby graced the walls of the West Wing, where every president from Jimmy Carter to Donald Trump had seen them.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=17775\">Shiite Muslims collectively mourn to mark Muharram and Ashoura<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, they\u2019re going on public display for the first time after a nonprofit organization paid a whopping sum of more than $7 million for the sketches after they ended up on an auction block following a family dispute over their ownership.<\/p>\n<p>The four 1940s-era sketches titled \u201cSo You Want to See the President!\u201d show people from all walks of life waiting to see President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II. They depict U.S. senators, members of the military, the press and even a Miss America biding their time in the West Wing reception area, as they wait to be shown to the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>The White House Historical Association spared no expense for the sketches to prevent them from being \u201clost forever,\u201d such as to a private art collection, its president Stewart McLaurin told The Associated Press. The public will be able to see them through June 2027 at the historical association\u2019s \u201cThe People\u2019s House\u201d education center near the White House, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd since they had been seen by the eyes of so many presidents and first ladies and senior White House staff and important visitors from around the world, we wanted the American people to see them,\u201d McLaurin said. \u201cSo we acquired them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sketches had been put up for sale by a grandson of the White House official who received them as a gift from Rockwell.<\/p>\n<div><ul><div><div><li><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stewart McLaurin displays a newly acquired suite of four Norman Rockwell paintings.\" class=\"wp-image-17777\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/127fc3f263bd829b01b0d8a97a9d979a-1024x683.webp\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/127fc3f263bd829b01b0d8a97a9d979a-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/127fc3f263bd829b01b0d8a97a9d979a-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/127fc3f263bd829b01b0d8a97a9d979a-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/127fc3f263bd829b01b0d8a97a9d979a-1536x1024.webp 1536w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/127fc3f263bd829b01b0d8a97a9d979a.webp 1860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>Stewart McLaurin, president of the White House Historical Association, displays a newly acquired suite of four interrelated paintings by Norman Rockwell titled, \u201cSo You Want to See the President!\u201d at the association\u2019s offices Wednesday, June 10, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo\/John McDonnell)\n<\/div><\/div><\/li><li><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stewart McLaurin displays a newly acquired suite of four Norman Rockwell paintings.\" class=\"wp-image-17778\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c39c5b7fd99a9b4aef3c8fdc1b84749a-1024x682.webp\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c39c5b7fd99a9b4aef3c8fdc1b84749a-1024x682.webp 1024w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c39c5b7fd99a9b4aef3c8fdc1b84749a-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c39c5b7fd99a9b4aef3c8fdc1b84749a-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c39c5b7fd99a9b4aef3c8fdc1b84749a-1536x1024.webp 1536w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c39c5b7fd99a9b4aef3c8fdc1b84749a.webp 1859w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>Stewart McLaurin, president of the White House Historical Association, displays a newly acquired suite of four interrelated paintings by Norman Rockwell titled, \u201cSo You Want to See the President!\u201d at the association\u2019s offices Wednesday, June 10, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo\/John McDonnell)\n<\/div><\/div><\/li><li><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Luke Boorady arranges a suite of four inter-related paintings by Norman Rockwell.\" class=\"wp-image-17779\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/9cf1e125d4128acc6ac8b39a08f5ed8e-1024x683.webp\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/9cf1e125d4128acc6ac8b39a08f5ed8e-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/9cf1e125d4128acc6ac8b39a08f5ed8e-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/9cf1e125d4128acc6ac8b39a08f5ed8e-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/9cf1e125d4128acc6ac8b39a08f5ed8e-1536x1024.webp 1536w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/9cf1e125d4128acc6ac8b39a08f5ed8e.webp 1860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>Luke Boorady, of the White House Historical Association, arranges a suite of four inter-related paintings by Norman Rockwell, \u201cSo You Want to See the President!\u201d at the association\u2019s offices Wednesday, June 10, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo\/John McDonnell)\n<\/div><\/div><\/li><li><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stewart McLaurin displays a newly acquired suite of four Norman Rockwell paintings.\" class=\"wp-image-17780\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/266e49ff69e134cd367e7603051dce5d-1024x683.webp\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/266e49ff69e134cd367e7603051dce5d-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/266e49ff69e134cd367e7603051dce5d-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/266e49ff69e134cd367e7603051dce5d-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/266e49ff69e134cd367e7603051dce5d-1536x1024.webp 1536w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/266e49ff69e134cd367e7603051dce5d.webp 1860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>Stewart McLaurin, president of the White House Historical Association, displays a newly acquired suite of four interrelated paintings by Norman Rockwell titled, \u201cSo You Want to See the President!\u201d at the association\u2019s offices Wednesday, June 10, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo\/John McDonnell)\n<\/div><\/div><\/li><\/div><\/div><\/ul><div><div>Stewart McLaurin, president of the White House Historical Association, displays a newly acquired suite of four interrelated paintings by Norman Rockwell titled, \u201cSo You Want to See the President!\u201d at the association\u2019s offices Wednesday, June 10, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo\/John McDonnell)\n<\/div><span>Expand<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<h4>Rockwell is famous for his scenes of American life<\/h4>\n<p>Rockwell, who became famous for his illustrations of everyday American life that graced covers of the Saturday Evening Post, spent hours at the White House people-watching from a chair in the West Wing lobby, McLaurin said.<\/p> <div>\n<\/div>\n<p>But after his sketches were consumed by a fire that destroyed Rockwell\u2019s art studio in Vermont, he went back to the White House to collect more material.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it\u2019s really a combination of his memories from that first visit, the memories of the second visit,\u201d McLaurin said. \u201cAnd it is an array of these people representing the military and White House staff and members of Congress and the press corps and all kinds of people that literally, to this day, go through that space in the West Wing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first of Rockwell\u2019s colorful sketches opens with scenes of the entrance gate, photographers waiting outside the White House entrance on West Executive Avenue and Stephen Early, a former AP journalist who became the third White House press secretary under Roosevelt, in a huddle with a group of journalists. Seated on red leather chairs and reading papers are members of the press and Rockwell, with a pipe in his mouth and legs outstretched.<\/p>\n<p>The next scene shows Miss America \u2014 identified as Rosemary LaPlanche, the 1941 titleholder \u2014 in a yellow dress and her sash, sitting on a red sofa alongside her publicity man. A kilt-wearing Scottish officer also sits nearby as a Secret Service agent hovers.<\/p> <div>\n<\/div>\n<p>U.S. Sens. Tom Connally, D-Texas, and Warren Austin, R-Vt., face each other in conversation as they sit on a red couch in the third sketch while a U.S. Navy \u201cWAVES\u201d officer looks on from a nearby chair. Gens. Joseph W. \u201cVinegar Joe\u201d Stillwell and Edwin M. \u201cPa\u201d Watson shake hands while being photographed, and an aide pushing Roosevelt\u2019s lunch cart is chased by Fala, the president\u2019s dog.<\/p>\n<p>The final sketch shows more uniformed U.S military members huddled in conversation and, finally, an aide opening the door to the Oval Office, where the president is glimpsed.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=17769\">A cancer patient\u2019s cats inspired a push for pets in hospice wards<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s such a little aquarium of these people and we\u2019re like a fly on the wall as to what it was like at that particular period of time,\u201d McLaurin said of the sketches.<\/p>\n<h4>They were a gift for Roosevelt\u2019s press secretary<\/h4>\n<p>Rockwell made the sketches for Early and gave them to him after they appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in November 1943, during World War II, McLaurin said.<\/p>\n<p>Early, who died in 1951, had displayed them on the wall in his West Wing office and then kept them for many years after. In 1978, a family member turned the sketches over to the White House, where they were on display throughout the West Wing for more than four decades, sometimes in a hallway between the press offices that are mere steps from the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>The family\u2019s ownership dispute began in 2017 when Thomas Early, one of the press secretary\u2019s sons, saw them on a wall in the White House while watching a television interview with President Donald Trump, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p>William Elam III, a grandson of Stephen Early, said his mother received the drawings as a gift from her father, the press secretary, before he died, and that ownership had later passed to him.<\/p>\n<p>The illustrations had gone to the White House in 1978 under an agreement that required they be returned to Elam upon request. The White House gave back the drawings in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>A federal appeals court settled the dispute in May 2025, upholding a lower-court ruling in favor of Elam, according to court records. Elam put them up for sale.<\/p>\n<h4>Association says the sketches are \u2018priceless\u2019<\/h4>\n<p>Historians at the association have researched the people in the drawings to learn their stories, McLaurin said, and the exhibit will include a digital component that uses modern technology to bring the characters in the sketches to life.<\/p>\n<p>The association is still figuring out what happens to the sketches after the exhibit ends in June 2027. They may be shown in other venues, and may eventually end up back in the White House, McLaurin said.<\/p>\n<p>When the association learned the sketches were for sale, \u201cour board affirmed that this is an acquisition that we should make,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>McLaurin said the privately funded association, which was founded in 1961 by first lady Jacqueline Kennedy and receives no taxpayer dollars, had feared the sketches would sell for even more than the $7.25 million it paid for them. That is the most the association has ever paid for a work of art for the vast collection it holds as part of its mission to help the White House collect and display artifacts that represent American history and culture.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=17767\">As LeBron James mulls whether to return, leave or retire, what can the Lakers do?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our view, these are priceless works,\u201d McLaurin said.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four 1940s-era sketches titled \u201cSo You Want to See the President!\u201d from Norman Rockwell are going on display for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Norman Rockwell people-watched in the West Wing lobby. 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