Norman+Rockwell

Norman Rockwell was born on February 3rd, 1894 and died on November 8th 1978. He 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. Rockwell married his first wife, Irene O'Connor, in 1916. In 1943, during the Second World War, Rockwell painted the four freedom series, which was completed in seven months and resulted in his losing 15 pounds. 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. later in life he married his 3rd wife Molly Punderson. His last painting for the Post was published in 1963, marking the end of a publishing relationship that had included 322 cover paintings. He was age 84 when he died. Some of his works


 * Scout at Ship's Wheel (1913) (first published magazine cover illustration, boys life, September 1913)
 * Santa and Scouts in Snow (1913)
 * Boy and Baby Carriage (1916) (First Saturday evening post Cover)
 * Circus Barker and Strongman (1916)
 * Gramps at the Plate (1916)
 * Redhead Loves Hatty Perkins (1916)
 * People in a Theatre Balcony (1916)
 * Tain't You (1917) (First life maginze cover)
 * Cousin Reginald Goes to the Country (1917)
 * Santa and Expense Book (1920)
 * Mother Tucking Children into Bed (1921) (first Wife Irene Is the Model)