Doctor and the Doll is one of my favorite Rockwell paintings. It reminds me so much of my father who was a doctor. He loved children and had such a way with them. He knew how to gain their trust and children instinctively loved and trusted him.
“Doctor and the Doll” by
Norman Rockwell (1929)
The doctor who applies his stethoscope to a young girl's doll is attempting to
acknowledge her world of enchantment. The expression on his face is as serious
and concerned as it might be if he were examining the girl herself. Such a
willingness to place professional expertise at the feet of childhood magic
serves to remind us, again, of things we have forgotten: secret kingdoms
inhabited by imaginary beings whose needs seemed as real as those of the people
around us. Rockwell's physician may appear to take the doll's health seriously
as an effort to gain the child's confidence and trust, but his act of sympathy
is also one of grace, accepting his patient's needs with serenity.
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