article_snippet.sent: Mary Doyle Keefe, who posed for the Normal Rockwell Rosie the Riveter painting as a 19-year-old telephone operator, has died in Simsbury, Conneticut, aged 92 .
article_snippet.sent: In Mary no-nonsense pose, Rosie the Riveter shows Mary brute strength with Mary left forearm muscle bulging.
article_snippet.sent: Mary has a rivet gun resting in Mary lap and Mary feet on a copy of Adolf Hitler's manifesto 'Mein Kampf.'
article_snippet.sent: Although Mrs Keefe was petite, Norman Rockwell's wanted Rosie the Riveter Rosie the Riveterto show strength, so Rosie the Riveter used artistic licence to make Mary arms, hands and shoulders bigger.
article_snippet.sent: The artists admitted Rosie the Riveter modelled Mary body on Michelangelo's Isaiah, which is on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
article_snippet.sent: Mrs Keefe, who wasn't actually a riveter, was paid $10 (equivalent to $136 today) for two sessions Mary posed for Norman Rockwell's and Rosie the Riveter photographer, Gene Pelham.
article_snippet.sent: After selling for $5million at a Sothenby's auction in 2002, the original Rosie the Riveter is now part of the permanent collection at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas.
highlights_snippet.sent: Artist made petite Mary's muscles bigger to make Mary Doyle Keefe symbol of strength .
  