Three sons, all with second wife Mary Rhoads Barstow.

1.  JARVIS - born September 4, 1931

For almost forty years, Jarvis Rockwell has built his always-growing collection of toys and figures. He began his artistic career drawing portraits of his neighbors and friends and taking classes at New York’s Art Students League and the National Academy of Design.

Following his service in the Korean War, Rockwell attended the Boston Museum School and Los Angeles County Art Institute. Since its beginning in 1979, Rockwell’s collection of toys has grown to include hundreds of thousands of pieces which range from classic action figures to carved wooden animals, mythical monsters, Happy Meal prizes, Troll dolls, Looney Tunes characters, and figurines of politicians, celebrities, and artists. After a decade of collecting, Rockwell began to create scenes that explore the relationships between figures and the narratives that these interactions produce.

Rockwell’s work has been included in exhibitions at MASS MoCA; the New Museum, New York, NY; Scottsdale Public Art, Scottsdale, AZ; Batman Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Images Gallery, Stockbridge, MA; Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA; Down Street Art, North Adams, MA; and the Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA. He lives and works in North Adams.

2.  THOMAS - born March 13, 1933

Thomas Rockwell grew up in Arlington, Vermont, a very rural small town. He attended a one-room schoolhouse; there were 23 students in his high school graduating class. He attended Bard College.

He says he always wanted to write. He was the ghostwriter of his father's autobiography, My Adventures as an Illustrator. He got the idea of writing children's books when he started reading to his own son. His wife Gail illustrated several of his books. Thomas has written fourteen books for children.

• His best-known book is How to Eat Fried Worms (1973), about a boy who accepts a $50 bet that he can eat 15 worms in 15 days. Although it was rejected by 23 publishers before finally coming out in print, the book sold 3 million copies and received the Mark Twain Award, the California Young Reader Medal, and the Sequoyah Book Award. It was made into an animated TV episode of CBS Storybreak in 1985 and was filmed as a theatrical release in 2006.

• Other books: How to Fight a Girl (1987) – sequel to How to Eat Fried Worms. And How to Get Fabulously Rich (1990)

3.  PETER - born September 16, 1936 – Died February 6, 2020

Peter Rockwell attended the Putney (Vt.) School, where he met his future wife, Cynthia (Cinny) Ide, in 11th grade. They were married in 1958 at the chapel at Connecticut College in New London, Conn. She died in 2013.

Following in his father's footsteps to establish his career as an artist, author and academic, Peter studied art and sculpted at Haverford. While there, he was severely injured in a fencing accident, requiring months of recuperation. When he returned to college, as an alternative to fencing, he decided to try sculpture, studying with J. Wallace Kelly.

After graduating from Haverford with an English degree, he enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts to study sculpture full time.

During his college years, Peter and his brother, author Thomas Rockwell, opened Rockwell Brothers: Books and Prints, a store in Stockbridge.

In order to study the techniques and materials of Italian Renaissance sculptors, Peter and his wife relocated to Italy after college, crossing the Atlantic Ocean on a freighter. They established a family residence in Rome, where they raised four children.

Peter worked in a studio space near their home on Villa Pamphili so he could walk to work, stop at his favorite cafe for an espresso and converse with the proprietors in fluent Italian.

After his wife's death, Peter returned to the U.S. to be closer to family members. He settled in Beverly and continued his work in the Boston suburb.

Peter Rockwell made "immeasurable contributions to Norman Rockwell Museum, including scholarship, programs, and his sculptures on the grounds and in the permanent collection," Norton Moffatt noted. He also wrote "Some Comments from the Boy in a Dining Car," an essay for the museum's first major traveling exhibition of his father's work, "Pictures for the American People."

Peter Rockwell was a strong advocate for his father's art as intended for a worldwide audience, not only Americans. He pointed out that the famed illustrations were even encountered behind courtyard walls in Pakistan, where Peter researched his own book on the unfinished monuments of India.

His resonant, reassuring voice can be heard as narrator of the orientation video for visitors to the Norman Rockwell Museum. Peter appeared frequently on the lecture circuit in the U.S. and abroad, speaking about

The largest assemblages of Peter's sculpture is in the permanent collection of the Norman Rockwell Museum, including his climbing acrobats, a massive stone carving named Grendel, and a cherished collection of sculptures he had given to his father.

His works are found on the museum grounds, in front of his father's studio and along the walking paths.

As an expert on sculpting techniques, Peter is the author of several rare books on stone carving in Italy and India, including "The Art of Stone working," "The Unfinished: Stone Carvers at Work on the Indian Subcontinent" and "The Complete Marble Sleuth."

Peter Rockwell, died February 6, 2020 at a hospice in Danvers, a suburb of Boston, spending his last weeks visited by children and grandchildren. He was 83.

News of his death was shared by the Norman Rockwell Museum, which reported that, at his death, he was wearing his favorite shirt, painted by his son, John, with his whimsical clay monsters and sketchbook by his side. Other sites housing his sculptures include the Rockwell Museum, the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., his alma mater, Haverford (Pa.) College, a convent in Chioggia, Italy, and the Women's Memorial Bell Tower at the Cathedral of the Pines, an open-air installation in Rindge, N.H., built as a memorial to American war dead. Peter Rockwell is known for his playful monsters, soaring acrobats, climbing sculptures, humorous terra cottas, bronze work and his deeply spiritual religious iconography.

While confronting his own mental health issues, Peter later reflected on childhood moments when he had to care for his mother, according to the family's obituary. He also talked about the challenges of being an artist son of a famous painter. While his art always was full of joy, he would talk about how, in life, he also suffered from anxieties and occasional "dark thoughts."

UN-NAMED

A fourth child was aborted during a trip to England in 1938.

The Post cover for October 8, 1938—the first after the alleged abortion—is called Blank Canvas, and depicts Rockwell sitting in front of an easel with an empty canvas in front of him, scratching his head.

On the corner of the canvas is a note: “DUE DATE.” According to Claridge, this emptiness represents the loss of the aborted Rockwell baby. There was no child to lovingly render—the child was gone, and Rockwell could not (or would not) paint his bloody demise.