Mary Doyle Keefe, who in 1943 posed as “Rosie the Riveter” for famed painter Norman Rockwell, dies at age 92 in Simsbury, Connecticut. Published on the cover of the Saturday Evening Postin May 1943, Rosie came to symbolize women factory workers during World War II. (The Rockwell painting is sometimes conjoined in peoples’ memories with a similarly-themed poster by Pittsburgh artist J. Howard Miller, “We Can Do It!” created the year before.) - 2015
For more on Doyle Keefe go to http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/mary-doyle-keefe-rosie-the-riveter-inspiration-dead-at-92-20150423
For more on Rockwell go to http://www.nrm.org/about-2/about-norman-rockwell/
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