The iconic New York artist Norman Rockwell is best remembered for his detailed paintings that appeared on the covers of The Saturday Evening Post from 1916 – 1963. Let me break that down…that’s 47 years and 321 covers. After this he moved over to Look magazine for a further ten years. He also designed work for numerous advertising campaigns owing much to his broad appeal. Some art critics often used his close relationship with commercial art to dilute his standing as an artist in his own right.
Rockwell’s knack for capturing small-town American life with humour and reflection, along with his realistic style made him popular in his own time and today.
You can visit The Norman Rockwell Museum situated in the artist’s old stomping ground of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and in 2011 a major exhibition of his work titled Norman Rockwell’s America was exhibited at London’s Dulwich Picture Gallery.
