Norman Rockwell

Columbia Encyclopedia: Rockwell, Norman,

1894–1978, American illustrator, b. New York City. An enormously popular illustrator, Rockwell specialized in warm and humorous scenes of everyday small-town life. Best known for his magazine covers, notably for the Saturday Evening Post, he developed a style of finely drawn realism with a wealth of anecdotal detail. Rockwell's poster series on the Four Freedoms was widely circulated during World War II. The artist lived the last 25 years of his life in Stockbridge, Mass., where a large museum devoted to his work opened in 1993.

Bibliography

See his autobiography (1960); biographical study by T. S. Buechner (1970); biography by L. Claridge (2001).

• Norman Rockwell's "Freedom From Want," 1943.

  Damien Cave writes:

  It is Sunday afternoon at the Aventura Mall in South Florida, and I’ve come to gauge the impact of a handful of images displayed in 14-foot-high posters near Nordstrom. Culled from a surprising new exhibition at the Wolfsonian museum at Florida International University titled “Thoughts on Democracy,” they are all artists’ responses to Rockwell’s wartime “Four Freedoms” series.

Art

Rockwell Re-enlisted for a Nation’s Darker Mood

By DAMIEN CAVE

A new exhibition in Florida features 60 artists’ responses to Norman Rockwell’s wartime “Four Freedoms” series.

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Wikipedia article "Norman Rockwell".

• Norman Rockwell Museum, Vermont
• Norman Rockwell official web site
• Complete Image Archive of Post-1922 Norman Rockwell Saturday Evening Post Covers
• Norman Rockwell WWII posters, hosted by the University of North Texas Libraries Digital Collections
• Norman Rockwell at Find a Grave
• Shea, Christopher. "Portrait of the artist as a dirty old man" Boston Globe October 1, 2006.
• Art Directors Club biography, portrait and images of work