NORMAN ROCKWELL // painter and illustrator
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Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States, where Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine for more than four decades. Among the best-known of Rockwell's works are the Willie Gillis series, Rosie the Riveter (although his Rosie was reproduced less than others of the day), Saying Grace (1951), and the Four Freedoms series. He is also noted for his work for the Boy Scouts of America (BSA); producing covers for their publication Boys' Life, calendars, and other illustrations.
Norman Rockwell was a prolific artist, producing over 4,000 original
works in his lifetime. Most of his works are either in public
collections, or have been destroyed in fire or other misfortunes.
Rockwell was also commissioned to illustrate over 40 books including Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. His annual contributions for the Boy Scouts' calendars between 1925 and 1976 (Rockwell was a 1939 recipient of the Silver Buffalo Award, the highest adult award given by the Boy Scouts of America[15]), were only slightly overshadowed by his most popular of calendar works: the "Four Seasons" illustrations for Brown & Bigelow
that were published for 17 years beginning in 1947 and reproduced in
various styles and sizes since 1964. Illustrations for booklets,
catalogs, posters (particularly movie promotions), sheet music, stamps,
playing cards, and murals (including "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and "God
Bless the Hills", which was completed in 1936 for the Nassau Inn in Princeton, New Jersey) rounded out Rockwell's œuvre as an illustrator.
In 1969, as a tribute to Rockwell's 75th year birthday, officials of
Brown & Bigelow and the Boy Scouts of America asked Rockwell to pose
in Beyond the Easel, the calendar illustration that year Rockwell's work was dismissed by serious art critics in his lifetime Many of his works appear overly sweet in modern critics' eyes, especially the Saturday Evening Post
covers, which tend toward idealistic or sentimentalized portrayals of
American life— this has led to the often-deprecatory adjective
"Rockwellesque." Consequently, Rockwell is not considered a "serious
painter" by some contemporary artists, who often regard his work as bourgeois and kitsch. Writer Vladimir Nabokov sneered that Rockwell's brilliant technique was put to "banal" use, and wrote in his book Pnin: "That Dalí
is really Norman Rockwell's twin brother kidnapped by Gypsies in
babyhood". He is called an "illustrator" instead of an artist by some
critics, a designation he did not mind, as it was what he called
himself.(sumber : wikipedia)