Appearing in the May 16, 1967, issue of Look magazine, the illustration depicts two black children standing by a moving van as their furniture is unloaded. The young boy (Wray) is holding a baseball glove, and the girl (Tracey) is holding a white cat. In front of them are three white children and a black dog. A white woman peers from a window.

Gunn recalls he and Tracey had a marathon session at Rockwell’s studio, posing for a photographer hired by Rockwell, with a cat that was “the most miserable animal.”

“Tracey was 40 pounds and the cat was 20,” Gunn says with a laugh. “It was a huge cat.”

Lynda Gunn “The Problems We All Live With” 1963

This painting is widely attributed as the personal narrative of Ruby Bridges who was the first African American child to integrate the William Franz Elementary School in New Orleans in the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling – Brown versus Board of Education. Norman Rockwell chose Lynda Gunn of Stockbridge to pose as the model for the painting, as he generally preferred to select local models for producing his paintings.