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	Norman Rockwell Biography \| Painter \| Saturday Evening Post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Norman Rockwell was born in New York City in 1894.
		Norman Rockwell had painted four Christmas cards before he turned 16 and while he was only a teenager he became the art director of Boys' Life - the Boy Scouts of America's publication.
		In 1977, Norman Rockwell was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom (the nation's highest civilian honor) for his "vivid and affectionate portraits of our country." He died at his home on November 8, 1978 when he was 84.
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	Norman Rockwell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rockwell transferred from high school to the Chase Art School at the age of 16.
		Rockwell is a recipient of the Silver Buffalo Award, the highest adult award given by the Boy Scouts of America.
		Norman Rockwell died November 8, 1978 of emphysema at age 84 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts
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	Norman Rockwell \| American Illustrator and Painter
		Norman Percevel Rockwell was born on February 3, 1894, the second son of Nancy and Waring Rockwell.
		Norman left high school early to return to New York City, settling at the Arts Student League to study art where his discipline, hard work, and sense of humor were widely recognized.
		Although Norman Rockwell was always at odds with contemporary notions of what an artist should be, he chose to paint life as he wanted to see it.
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	Phoenix Art Museum - Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People
		Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People demonstrates how Rockwell images provided Americans with a vocabulary for describing and celebrating themselves, their country and their experiences in the 20th century.
		Rockwell created pictures that bridged the old and the new, offering Americans a sense of comfort as the 20th century introduced them to a seemingly endless series of changes, the inventing of America.
		Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People, a fully illustrated, 200-page accompanying catalog published by the Norman Rockwell Museum and the High Museum of Art, is distributed by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, and is available for purchase now in The Museum Store.
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	American Masters . Norman Rockwell \| PBS
		This is Norman Rockwell’s America as depicted in his famous "Four Freedoms" series.
		What is unmistakable, however, is that Rockwell tapped into the nostalgia of a people for a time that was kinder and simpler.
		While history was in the making all around him, Rockwell chose to fill his canvases with the small details and nuances of ordinary people in everyday life.
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	Norman Rockwell's Cover Story LiteraryTraveler.com
		Norman Rockwell produced 4,000 works during his lifetime, yet his popularity is based on the covers he produced for The Saturday Evening Post, published by the Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia.
		Norman Rockwell was born in Manhattan in 1894, and although he never lived in Philadelphia, his connection to the city through Curtis Publishing Company is obvious.
		Nearby are various objects that Rockwell used as props for his paintings, such as a painter's scaffold and a barber chair.
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	artnet.com Magazine Reviews - Middle Americana
		In the catalogue, Rockwell is deemed "an American master," "a gift to the nation" and a dispenser of "universal truths." We are reminded that Ross Perot and Steven Spielberg collect his work.
		Rockwell didn't think like an artist, but he certainly was tormented like one.
		Nowadays, Rockwell is seen not as a pariah, but as a major talent at one end of the spectrum.
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	National Scouting Museum: Exhibits: Norman Rockwell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Norman Rockwell is perhaps best remembered for his countless Saturday Evening Post illustrations or his numerous advertisements for such companies as Coca-Cola, Ford Motor Company, and Sun-Maid Raisins.
		Rockwell did this painting free of charge as a thank you to the Boy Scouts for helping him begin his career.
		Norman Rockwell was a visual storyteller, documenting traditional American values.
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	Norman Rockwell St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Rockwell's prominence and the prevailing conception of advocates and critics alike--that his task was to represent America--largely issued from his long association with the popular magazine, the Saturday Evening Post.
		Rockwell himself enjoyed the pleasant irony that, this reputation notwithstanding, he was born--on February 3, 1894--in the paramount metropolis of New York City.
		Rockwell recalled growing up in modest circumstances, and described episodes of acute embarrassment in the face of his own social indiscretions which, he thought, bespoke his lower-middle-class background.
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	Norman Rockwell - Scouters on Stamps
		In addition, Norman Rockwell's artwork appeared on United States postage stamps, including Boy Scouts of America (1960), City Mail Delivery (1963), Tom Sawyer (1972), and a stamp honoring the Peace Corps, which was issued as part of the 1960s Celebrate The Century pane in 1999.
		Norman Rockwell began his career with the Boy Scouts of America in 1912 as an illustrator for Boy's Life.
		Rockwell brought 14-year old Thorton Percival of Stockbridge, Massachusets into his studio in Scout uniform to be his model.
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	Norman Rockwell - MSN Encarta
		Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), American painter and illustrator, best known for his magazine covers and illustrations for such prominent American periodicals as the Saturday Evening Post, the Ladies' Home Journal, and Look.
		Rockwell was born in New York City, and he trained there at the Art Students League.
		Rockwell's autobiography, My Adventures as an Illustrator, was published in 1959.
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	ArtScope.net: Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People
		Rockwell's Moving In (cover of Look Magazine, May 16, 1967) or The Golden Rule, an oil painting commissioned for a Post cover (April 1, 1961) attest to his ever-growing involvement with social justice and his concern that all be accorded tolerance and equal access to opportunity.
		Norman Rockwell's foremost interest, apart from and above doing 'good art' and earning a living from it, was the average and typical, if not ideal, American.
		Rockwell was born in 1894, began his art career at 16, and worked pretty much until he died in 1978.
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	Norman Rockwell Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The pictures of NORMAN ROCKWELL (1894-1978) were recognized and loved by almost everybody in America.
		Rockwell left high school to attend classes at the National Academy of Design and later studied under Thomas Fogarty and George Bridgman at the Art Students League in New York.
		The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts has established a large collection of his paintings, and has preserved Rockwell's last studio as well.
	www.illustration-house.com /bios/rockwell_bio.html (277 words)

	Norman Rockwell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Rockwell's idyllic Thanksgiving is one of four paintings he made in 1943 to illustrate America's Four Freedoms, to spur his countrymen on in the second world war.
		Rockwell later said he didn't feel quite happy with Freedom from Fear - it was, he said, "based on a rather smug idea" that Americans were safe from external attack.
		After he parted company with the magazine in 1963, Rockwell became more openly political, and the politics were not what people might have expected; indeed one of the many American artists who chronicled the breakup of Norman Rockwell's idyllic mid-century America was Norman Rockwell.
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	Norman Rockwell Christmas I
		So Rockwell's art had to be understandable to millions of people and it had to conform to the limits of space, of deadlines, and of editorial policy imposed by the printed page.
		Rockwell enjoyed the company of his rural neighbors, many of whom became his best models and his most honest critics.
		Mary died in 1959 and a lonely Rockwell remarried in 1961.
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	Amazon.ca: Rockwell, Norman: Painting America: DVD: Elena Mannes,Edward Herrmann,Norman Rockwell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		To look at Rockwell's paintings, one observer notes, is to enter "a mythical land of childhood innocence and exuberance." Director Steven Spielberg, who paid homage to a Rockwell tableau in his film Empire of the Sun, adds, "He dealt with every touchstone in life and made a meal out of it....
		One might be surprised, for example, that Rockwell was not born and raised in a small town but in cosmopolitan New York City.
		One of his daughters relates an anecdote with the same impish smile her father so wonderfully captured in a famous painting depicting a disheveled schoolgirl sitting outside the principal's office, the victor in a playground tussle with a boy.
	www.amazon.ca /Rockwell-Norman-Painting-Elena-Mannes/dp/B00002RATJ (391 words)

	Norman Rockwell
		In World War II Rockwell helped raise millions of dollars for the government by designing the "four freedoms" of the Atlantic Charter, which were used on U.S. government war bonds.
		Rockwell was named "artist of the year" in 1969 by his colleagues of the Artists Guild of New York.
		Rockwell moved to Stockbridge, Mass., in 1953 and in 1957 bought an old house that once belonged to Aaron Burr across from the famous Red Lion Inn, remodeling the carriage house-barn into his new and last studio.
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	Celebrate Apollo 11 with Norman Rockwell
		Though Rockwell himself signed the painting, the prints are not re-signed in pencil, as is usually the case with limited edition prints, because Norman Rockwell died in 1978.
		When Norman Rockwell died, at 84, on November 8, 1978, his wife, Molly, remarked that he should be remembered as "...a well-known artist and illustrator." But Norman Rockwell was much more; he was America's best loved and most admired chronicler of the loves, hopes and dreams of small-town America.
		Norman Rockwell was born at 103rd Street and Amsterdam Avenue in New York on February 10, 1884.
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	Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms Series From The Saturday Evening Post
		Rockwell's inspiration for the series was the Four Freedoms speech given before Congress by Franklin Delano Roosevelt on January 16, 1941.
		Norman Rockwell was inspired to paint The Four Freedoms series by Franklin Roosevelts' speech of the same name.
		Rockwell, knowing he was too old to serve in the military, sought to do something to help his country during World War II.
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	Norman Rockwell at Hourglass Antiques
		This is the first issue in the collection entitled ''Rockwell's Light Campaign'', from Edwin Knowles China Co. and the Rockwell Society of America.
		The theme sprang from Rockwell's need to illustrate the impact of Edison's new electric light, both as it illuminated the enduring strengths of the American family, and as it revealed new possibilities.
		Rockwell had a characteristic good humor and imbued the original painting with many errors.
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	Norman Rockwell
		First, there was the Wadsworth Atheneum in 1985, where, to my disbelief, I saw hanging, right in the midst of Picasso, Mondrian, and Miro, a picture of a spunky little girl, smiling proudly over her newly acquired fl eye as she waits outside the principal's office for her comeuppance.
		Rockwell may have agonized about being more of an illustrator than a "fine" artist, but his best work, such as this outing of a hideous American secret, makes such hierarchies as irrelevant as the old fashioned prejudice that photography must be a lower art than painting.
		And considering Rockwell's witty allusion to Mondrian, perhaps he also threw in a bit of Cubism in the free-floating verbal snippets of the old-fashioned gilded letters on the shop window that identify this homey place: BARBER, SHUFFLETON PROP.
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	Norman Rockwell - framed art prints
		Norman Rockwell, beloved American painter and illustrator, always wanted to be an artist.
		Norman Rockwell has had an enormous influence on popular culture and on generations of American illustrators.
		In 1916, the 22-year-old Rockwell painted his first cover for The Saturday Evening Post, the magazine considered by Rockwell to be the "greatest show window in America." Over the next 47 years, Rockwell produced another 321 covers for the Post.
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	Amazon.com: Norman Rockwell: A Life: Books: Laura Claridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Rockwell, Claridge writes, had ambitions to be considered a great artist, but he abandoned them early on in the struggle to make a living through his abilities as an illustrator.
		Rockwell's struggles between practicing "fine" arts and illustration lived with him his entire life, and Claridge gives insight behind the cause of those struggles.
		Claridge's Rockwell comes across as an extremely humane man, trying to be as nice as possible to all who crossed his path, while keeping a protective shield around him, so as not to interfere with his artistic productivity.
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	Rockwell and Csatari
		Rockwell became the visual spokesman for Scouting, bringing its spirit and ideals to life through hundreds of now-classic paintings.
		When the gangly Rockwell tried to join the Navy to fight in World War I, in 1917, he was at first rejected for being 17 pounds underweight.
		During the time Rockwell was working on his last two BSA paintings, Csatari often traveled to Stockbridge to assist the aging artist.
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	Chicago Historical Society
		"Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People" organizes the artist's work into four thematic groups to demonstrate how Rockwell images provided Americans with a vocabulary for describing and celebrating themselves, their country, and their experiences in the 20th century.
		To put Rockwell's work into the context of the period, the exhibition includes a timeline of the artist's life entitled "Life as an Illustrator." This part of the exhibition displays original works of art and family photographs alongside newspaper headlines and photographs tracking the major political, economic, and social events of Rockwell's time.
		Although Rockwell drew on the work of other great artists in creating his images, it was the ordinary routines of life that inspired his work.
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	Norman Rockwell (1894 - 1978) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Norman Rockwell first studied at several art schools in New York before becoming a full-time illustration at the age of 18.
		Rockwell was known for creating scenes of everyday American life in a nostalgic and sentimental fashion.
		Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People spans more than 60 years of the artist’s career and offers an in-depth look at the artwork of a man who helped forge a sense of American iden...
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	Norman Rockwell - Review Washington Monthly - Find Articles
		Rockwell was born in 1894, a year before Oscar Wilde's "indecency" trials damned the literary virtuoso's career for offending public decorum.
		Rockwell painted in the '60s, but by then, the influence of the illustrators had waned significantly.
		During his prime in the 1930s and '40s, Rockwell was a mythmaker for the generation of Americans who lived through the humiliation and despair of unemployment during the Depression, and later, the fear and urgencies of World War II.
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