Do you think that Norman Rockwell worked from a photograph to paint Freedom from Want? Is cutting off the heads on each side of the painting typical of photographs of scenes such as this? How...

Do you think that Norman Rockwell worked from a photograph to paint Freedom from Want? Is cutting off the heads on each side of the painting typical of photographs of scenes such as this? How impressive is Rockwell’s artistic technique? Does his technique make this a work of art?