Istvan Banyai: Woman on the Beach Signed Print Curtis When Woman's Home Companion commissioned

When Woman's Home Companion commissioned Rockwell to illustrate a biography of Louisa May Alcott

the Housatonic Valley and surrounding hills have proved to be a haven for inventors and industrialists

The juxtaposition reveals an eye for composition and detail that was equally at home in two mediums

In his paintings

and The Marriage License are presented here alongside the startlingly well realized study photographs from which he painted

Istvan Banyai: Woman on the Beach Signed Print Curtis When Woman's Home Companion commissionedSigned in pencil by Istvan Banyai. Cover illustration for The New Yorker August 29, 2011. Print measures 14" x 18", Image measures 9" x 12". High quality giclee print on acid free archival paper. From the exhibition Istvan Banyai: Stranger in a Strange Land on view March 9, through May 5, 2013 at the Norman Rockwell Museum.