Mary Doyle Keefe, the woman who posed for Norman Rockwell’s iconic World War II painting “Rosie the Riveter” has died.
Keefe, who passed away from a brief illness, was 92.
Keefe’s family confirmed to multiple outlets that the historic model died in Connecticut on Tuesday, April 21.
The late 92-year-old posed for Rockwell’s famous painting — which landed on the May 1943 cover of the Saturday Evening Post and symbolized the millions of women who
went to work in factories during World War II — when she was just 19-years-old and was only paid $10 to strike the now-symbolic pose.
"I was much smaller than that and did not know how he was going to make me look like that until I saw the finished painting,” Keefe told the Hartford Courant in 2012, explaining that Rockwell painted based off photographs a photographer would take.
"There was a war on, and you did what you could," she recalled.
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