Norman Rockwell

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Norman Rockwell

• By Jessie

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Norman Rockwells Style of Art

• Norman Rockwell was an oil painter and a
  childrens books illustrator. He mostly worked on
  pictures including people. I did Man on the
  Moon as the piece of artwork for Norman
  Rockwell. On this painting he used oil paints
  when I used colored pencils. I will be describing
  a different more famous picture, Freedom form
  Want. It was part of the four freedoms, want,
  speech, worship, and fear. Freedom from Want is
  showing a family getting ready for a Thanksgiving
  feast in pastel paints.

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A Biography of Norman Rockwell

• Born in 1894
• Lived in New York City
• Dropped out of high school
• Suffered depression
• Begins sketching in 1899
• 1910 enrolls in National Academy of Design
• 1916 First Saturday evening post cover at age 22
  marries Irene OConner
• WW1 starts, he enrolls 1917
• Norman Rockwell is discharged in 1918
• Divorces Irene
• Marries Mary Rhodes Barstew in 1930
• His first son is born, Jarvis in 1932
• Second son is born, Tom in 1933
• Third son is born, Peter in 1936
• 1937 begins using photography in addition to live
  models

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Continued Biography

• 1939 moves to Arlington, Vermont
• 1943 Four freedoms painted in the post
• 1943 studio burns to the ground
• 1952 paints president Dwight D. Eisenhower
• 1953 moves to Stockbridge, Mass.
• 1959 his wife dies
• 1961 Receives Inter Faith Award form the National
  conference of Christians and Jews
• Marries Mary L. Punderson in 1961
• Dies in Stocking bridge on November eighth 1978

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My Opinion

• I think that Norman Rockwell become famous for
  two reasons. One reason is that he painted over
  300 Saturday Evening post covers, the most
  popular post of the time. The other reason is
  that he did many magazine covers and childrens
  books.

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Worked Cited

• Durrett, Deanne. The Importance of Norman
  Rockwell. San Diego Lucent Books, Inc., 1997.