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Norman Percevel Rockwell was an American painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of the country's culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over nearly five decades. Among the best-known of Rockwell's works are the Willie Gillis series, Rosie the Ri…
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culture · American painter and illustrator (1894–1978) · painter · illustrator · photographer · also Norman Rockwell, Norman Perceval Rockwell, Rockwell
Born 3 February 1894 · Died 8 November 1978 · Q271884
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The encouragement and freedom you give me in my work shows what a great impresario you are. It is great to feel that your art editor is one hundred per cent for you, and is a real friend. This may sound a bit flowery, but it is completely sincere, and I do want to express my thanks to you.
Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed. My fundamental purpose is to interpret the typical American. I am a story teller.
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“The encouragement and freedom you give me in my work shows what a great impresario you are. It is great to feel that your art editor is one hundred per cent for you, and is a real friend. This may sound a bit flowery, but it is completely sincere, and I do want to express my thanks to you.”
Public attention spiked: 3,596 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.1× the usual 1,163, with 3 article edits. Editors noted: Removed sentence indicating that Vladimir Nabokov "stated that Rockwell's brilliant technique was put to "banal" use." This is inaccurate; in Nabokov's novel Pn
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The Norman Rockwell family published an essay in the opinion section of USA Today denouncing the Donald Trump administration's Department of Homeland Security's unauthorized use of several Rockwell paintings in social me
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The original 1948 oil study for Tough Call (also known as Game Called Because of Rain), one of Rockwell's best-known baseball-themed works, sold for US $1
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Snopes rated the claim “A little-known painting entitled "Cat Prevents House Fire" was created by Norman Rockwell.” False.
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Google featured Rockwell's iconic image of young love "Boy and Girl Gazing at the Moon", which is also known as "Puppy Love", on its home page
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Rockwell was named the official state artist of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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May Corporation, that previously bought Marshall Field's from Target Corp
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Rockwell's painting Girl at Mirror was used for the cover of Prism's fifth studio album Small Change
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Of emphysema at the age of 84 in his Stockbridge, Massachusetts, home
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Died 1978-11-08.
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“Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed. My fundamental purpose is to interpret the typical American. I am a story teller.”
“I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.”
“Gary LaCoste had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out.”
“The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.”
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Gerald Ford (1977).
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Rockwell was commissioned to do an album cover portrait of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper for their record, The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper
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Rockwell was invited to Hollywood to paint portraits of the stars of the film Stagecoach, and also found himself appearing as an extra in the film, playing a "mangy old gambler"
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The Back Room Rest, better known as the famous "Alice's Restaurant"
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Marking the end of 47 years of a publishing relationship that had included 322 cover paintings
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Mary died unexpectedly of a heart attack
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After his wife Mary died suddenly from a heart attack, Rockwell took time off from his work to grieve
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The Rockwell family moved to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, so that his wife could be treated at the Austen Riggs Center, a psychiatric hospital at 25 Main Street, close to where Rockwell set up his studio
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Rockwell donated an original Post cover, April Fool, to be raffled off in a library fund raiser
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And reproduced in various styles and sizes since 1964
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During World War II, Rockwell painted the Four Freedoms series, which was completed in seven months and resulted in him losing fifteen pounds
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Rockwell moved to Arlington, Vermont, in 1939 where his work began to reflect small-town life.
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Where his work began to reflect small-town life
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For the Nassau Inn in Princeton, New Jersey) rounded out Rockwell's oeuvre as an illustrator
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With production of his first of fifty-one original illustrations for the official Boy Scouts of America annual calendar, which still may be seen in the Norman Rockwell Art Gallery at the National Scouting Museum in Cimar
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Boy with Baby Carriage (published on May 20)
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Left his salaried position at Boys' Life, but continued to include scouts in Post cover images and the monthly magazine of the American Red Cross
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Rockwell married his first wife, Irene O'Connor, on July 1, 1916.
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In Harlem in New York City, to Jarvis Waring Rockwell and Anne Mary "Nancy" (née Hill) Rockwell, and lived at 789 St
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Born 1894-02-03.
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