BIOGRAPHY

American artist and Illustrator. His works are popular in the United States, and for four decades he had been illustrating covers of the Saturday Evening Post magazine.

Norman Rockwell was born in 1894 in a non-artistic family: his father was a manager for a textile company, and his mother was a homemaker. Norman's passion for drawing began in early childhood.

At the age of 14, he entered the New York School of the Arts, and two years later moved to the National Academy of Design, and then to the creative group of art students

Rockwell's success came early. He completed his first order at the age of fifteen. A year later, he was invited to be the leading artist in Boys ' Life, the official publication of the boy scouts of America.

During this period, Rockwell started a successful career as a freelance artist, constantly receiving numerous commissions for illustrations for youth magazines.

At 21, Rockwell opened his own studio.

...... ockwell was born in 1894 to a non-artistic family: his father was a Manager for a textile company, and his mother was a homemaker. Norman's passion for drawing began in early childhood.

At the age of 14, he entered the new York school of art, and two years later moved to the National Academy of design, and then to the creative group Art Students

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Period of the 30s-40s was the most fruitful in a career of the Illustrator.

Together with his new wife, Mary Baretow, and three sons, Rockwell moved from New York to the small town of Arlington in Vermont. The change of residence also affected Rockwell's work: he began to pay more attention to the image of American life in small towns.

In 1943, inspired by President Franklin Roosevelt's speech to Congress, Rockwell created his famous "Four Freedoms" series of paintings. These works, which brought Rockwell even greater fame, traveled with exhibitions all over the country, and the funds received from the exhibitions ($130 million) went to military needs.

In 1953, Rockwell and his family moved to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where he continued to work tirelessly, creating numerous illustrations, posters, advertising works and others.

After Mary's death in 1959, Rockwell married to Molly Panderson, a retired teacher. It was his third marriage. He also started working with Look magazine.

In 1960, thanks to the long and hard work in which Rockwell was assisted by his son Thomas, the artist published an autobiographical book called "My Adventures as an Illustrator".

During these years, he began to pay more attention to the country's social problems - poverty, racism, the Vietnam war.

RECENT YEAR

MAGAZINE

The Saturday Evening Post Magazine

In 1916, Rockwell married and drew his first cover for the Saturday Evening Post. And then he continued to work with them for 47 years.

MUSEUM

....he Norman Rockwell Museum was founded in 1969 and has a large collection of original works by Norman Rockwell, an American Illustrator and artist.

The Museum is located in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where Norman Rockwell lived for the last 25 years of his life. The Museum contains some of his most striking works, including paintings intended for the cover of the Saturday Evening Post magazine, which featured his favorite model, Mary Whelen-Leonard, as well as paintings of Four Freedoms and Stockbridge Main Street on Christmas. In addition to 574 of his original works, the Museum keeps about 100,000 of his various photographs, letters, and business documents.

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