President Greets Rockwell Museum Group
 Bridges Hall, Morgan and Norton Moffatt sent us this picture of them waiting outside the west entrance of the White House to see the president. |
President Barack Obama greeted the museum's Director Laurie Norton Moffatt, President Anne Morgan and Trustee Ruby Bridges Hall, the focus of the painting.
Rockwell's 1963 painting was inspired by Bridges Hall's history-changing walk integrating William Frantz Public School in New Orleans on Nov. 14, 1960. The president requested the loaning of the painting from the permanent collection of Norman Rockwell Museum to honor the 50th anniversary of her childhood experience.
"It was deeply moving to hear President Obama speak with Ruby Bridges about her school experience and Norman Rockwell's painting," said Norton Moffatt. "He acknowledged Ruby's walk to school and her mother's courage as the direct heritage that made it possible for him to serve in the White House."
Bridges Hall replied, "we all stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before us."
"The Problem We All Live With" is hanging in a West Wing hallway near the Oval Office.
This isn't Norton Moffatt's first visit to the White House. In 2008, she represented the museum when it was awarded a National Humanities Medal from President George W. Bush.
