biography
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Rockwell, Norman (Percevel)
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| male
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| (1894–1978)
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| biography:
| Illustrator, born in New York City, New York, USA. Considered the most famous and popular illustrator in America, he studied at the Chase School of Art, Mamaroneck, NY (c.1908), the National Academy of Design (1909), and the Art Students League (1910), New York. He was an illustrator for major periodicals, including St Nicholas, Collier's, Life, Judge, Look, and most importantly, the Saturday Evening Post (1916–63). He produced calendars for Brown & Bigelow (1924–76), created advertisements, and illustrated such classics as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Early in his career he lived in New Rochelle, NY, then moved to Arlington, VT, and finally settled in Stockbridge, MA. Using oils and an impeccable realistic technique, he idealized small town America and expressed a personal vision that occasionally rose above sentimentality, as in Breaking Home Ties (1954) and Triple Self Portrait (1960). |
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