Jarvis Rockwell (2017)

Jarvis Rockwell, Norman's first son, leads the way for his two younger brothers, navigating a difficult family life. His mother Mary dies early, in 1959. Quality time with his workaholic father mostly consists of posing for some of Norman's most famous paintings. Jarvis chooses to avoid Norman's expected path into oil painting, which made his father famous as the 20th century's premiere Illustrator of Americana. Instead, Jarvis explores other kinds of art, both 2D works and 3D sculptural visions, which includes a strange compulsion to destroy his works. After Norman's passing in 1978, Jarvis develops an obsession to collect toy action figures. How he acts out early frustration with treatment by his father through this new palette of easily posed "plastic souls" leads him to a conceptual breakthrough, ultimately resulting in crowd pleasing art and Jarvis' reconciliation with his father's ghost. Jarvis tell the story himself, bringing self-deprecating humor to a serious subject of growing up in a dysfunctional family.