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Rockwell married his first wife, Irene O ' Connor, in 1916.

Irene was Rockwell's model in Mother Tucking Children into Bed, published on the cover of The Literary Digest on January 19, 1921.

However, the couple were divorced in 1930.

Depressed, he moved briefly to Alhambra, California as a guest of his old friend Clyde Forsythe.

There he painted some of his best-known paintings including " The Doctor and the Doll ".

While there he met and married schoolteacher Mary Barstow.

The couple returned to New York shortly after their marriage.

They had three children: Jarvis Waring, Thomas Rhodes and Peter Barstow.

The family lived at 24 Lord Kitchener Road in the Bonnie Crest neighborhood of New Rochelle, New York.

Rockwell and his wife were not very religious, although they were members of St. John's Wilmot Church, an Episcopal church near their home, and had their sons baptized there as well.

Rockwell moved to Arlington, Vermont, in 1939 where his work began to reflect small-town life.