Alina Cohen, Norman Rockwell’s Family Hits Out at U.S. Homeland Security Over Social Media Posts, ArtNet, 3 November 2025
The artist’s descendants decry the use of his work “for the cause of persecution toward immigrant communities and people of color.”
Norman Rockwell’s descendants are condemning the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for misusing the artist’s work in its social media posts.
After DHS shared Rockwell reproductions across its X, Instagram, and Facebook accounts to promote its anti-immigrant rhetoric, Rockwell’s family published a November 2 op-ed at USA Today to highlight the artist’s anti-racist efforts. “If Norman Rockwell were alive today, he would be devastated to see… that his own work has been marshaled for the cause of persecution toward immigrant communities and people of color,” they wrote.
Image: President Barack Obama, Ruby Bridges, and representatives of the Norman Rockwell Museum view Rockwell’s “The Problem We All Live With,” hanging in a West Wing hallway near the Oval Office, July 15, 2011. Bridges is the girl portrayed the painting. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza).