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NORMAN ROCKWELL
KUNSTWERKE NORMAN ROCKWELL
Norman Rockwell | A collection of 337 paintings | LearnFromMasters | Description: „Norman Perceval Rockwell, The Saturday Evening Post’s most famous illustrator, is considered by many to be one of America’s greatest artists. He was a master storyteller via canvas and paint, and his works, capturing the triumphs and foibles of the common man, are as popular today as they were in decades past. Rockwell’s talent flourished during a period referred to as “The Golden Age of Illustration,” when the nation enjoyed the brilliance of such illustrators as Winslow Homer, J.C. Leyendecker, Maxfield Parrish, N.C. Wyeth, and Ellen Pyle. Born in New York City on February 3, 1894, Rockwell always wanted to be an illustrator. He transferred to the Chase Art School at the age of 14, and then went on to the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League. There, he was taught by famous artists such as Thomas Fogarty, George Bridgman, and Frank Vincent DuMond. Rockwell’s first major commission came in 1912, when he was just 18, with his first book illustration for Carl H. Claudy’s Tell Me Why: Stories about Mother Nature. Rockwell later produced works for St. Nicholas Magazine and the Boy Scouts of America’s publication Boys’ Life, of which he later became the art editor. During his three year tenure (1913–1916), he painted several covers, the first, Scout at Ship’s Wheel, appearing on the Boys’ Life September 1913 edition. Some of Rockwell’s fondest early memories were of summers spent in the country enjoying an adventuresome and carefree existence. His parents took in and cared for boarders, leaving young Rockwell the freedom to spend his days as he wished. Rockwell recalled in his autobiography, “I have no bad memories of my summers in the country,” and remarked that his recollection of this time “all together formed an image of sheer blissfulness.” Many of his experiences during this special time are reflected in his later paintings. Rockwell’s involvement with The Saturday Evening Post began in 1916. His family had moved to New Rochelle, New York, where a then 21-year-old Rockwell shared a studio with cartoonist Clyde Forsythe, who worked for the Post. Forsythe helped Rockwell submit his first successful cover painting, Mother’s Day Off, to the Post in 1916. Forty-seven years later, Rockwell’s work had appeared 322 times on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post — the last, a portrait of John F. Kennedy, appeared in 1963, a week after the president’s assassination. Rockwell spent the last 10 years of his career painting about civil rights, poverty, and space exploration for Look magazine. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States of America’s highest civilian honor, in 1977 for “vivid and affectionate portraits of our country.“ | YouTube
VIDEO | FILM NORMAN ROCKWELL
Norman Rockwell Documentary | Sherway Academy of Music | Norman Perceval Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was a 20th-century American author, painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for its reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over nearly five decades.[1] Among the best-known of Rockwell’s works are the Willie Gillis series, Rosie the Riveter, The Problem We All Live With, Saying Grace, and the Four Freedoms series. He also is noted for his 64-year relationship with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), during which he produced covers for their publication Boys‘ Life, calendars, and other illustrations. These works include popular images that reflect the Scout Oath and Scout Law such as The Scoutmaster, A Scout is Reverent[2] and A Guiding Hand,[3] among many others. Norman Rockwell was a prolific artist, producing more than 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 also was commissioned to illustrate more than 40 books, including Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as well as painting the portraits for Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, as well as those of foreign figures, including Gamal Abdel Nasser and Jawaharlal Nehru. His portrait subjects included Judy Garland. One of his last portraits was of Colonel Sanders in 1973. 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[4]), 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. He painted six images for Coca-Cola advertising.[5] 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. Rockwell’s work was dismissed by serious art critics in his lifetime.[6] Many of his works appear overly sweet in the opinion of modern critics,[7] 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 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 that was what he called himself.[8] In his later years, however, Rockwell began receiving more attention as a painter when he chose more serious subjects such as the series on racism for Look magazine.[9] One example of this more serious work is The Problem We All Live With, which dealt with the issue of school racial integration. The painting depicts a young black girl, Ruby Bridges, flanked by white federal marshals, walking to school past a wall defaced by racist graffiti.[10] This painting was displayed in the White House when Bridges met with President Obama in 2011 | YouTube
Norman Rockwell and the Challenge of Realism | with Stephanie Haboush Plunkett | Norman Rockwell Museum | Recorded: Thursday, July 28, 2016 Deputy Director and Chief Curator Stephanie Plunkett traces the shifts in twentieth century art and the art of illustration during this interactive gallery walk exploring „Rockwell and Realism in an Abstract World.“ | YouTube
BIOGRAFIE NORMAN ROCKWELL
GEBURTSJAHR | GEBURTSORT | TODESJAHR | STERBEORT
AUSBILDUNG NORMAN ROCKWELL
LEHRTÄTIGKEIT NORMAN ROCKWELL
MITGLIEDSCHAFTEN NORMAN ROCKWELL
AUSZEICHNUNGEN NORMAN ROCKWELL
SAMMLUNGEN NORMAN ROCKWELL
AUSSTELLUNGEN NORMAN ROCKWELL
EINZELAUSSTELLUNGEN
GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNGEN
PROJEKTE | SYMPOSIEN
WERKBESCHREIBUNG NORMAN ROCKWELL
SCHWERPUNKTE | MEDIEN
STIL
THEMEN | MOTIVE | WERKE
DEFINITION | BESCHREIBUNG | MERKMALE
STICHWORTE NORMAN ROCKWELL
ZITATE NORMAN ROCKWELL
TEXT | BIBLIOGRAPHIE NORMAN ROCKWELL
LINKS NORMAN ROCKWELL
HOMEPAGE NORMAN ROCKWELL
NORMAN ROCKWELL
KUNSTWERKE NORMAN ROCKWELL
Norman Rockwell | A collection of 337 paintings | LearnFromMasters | Description: „Norman Perceval Rockwell, The Saturday Evening Post’s most famous illustrator, is considered by many to be one of America’s greatest artists. He was a master storyteller via canvas and paint, and his works, capturing the triumphs and foibles of the common man, are as popular today as they were in decades past. Rockwell’s talent flourished during a period referred to as “The Golden Age of Illustration,” when the nation enjoyed the brilliance of such illustrators as Winslow Homer, J.C. Leyendecker, Maxfield Parrish, N.C. Wyeth, and Ellen Pyle. Born in New York City on February 3, 1894, Rockwell always wanted to be an illustrator. He transferred to the Chase Art School at the age of 14, and then went on to the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League. There, he was taught by famous artists such as Thomas Fogarty, George Bridgman, and Frank Vincent DuMond. Rockwell’s first major commission came in 1912, when he was just 18, with his first book illustration for Carl H. Claudy’s Tell Me Why: Stories about Mother Nature. Rockwell later produced works for St. Nicholas Magazine and the Boy Scouts of America’s publication Boys’ Life, of which he later became the art editor. During his three year tenure (1913–1916), he painted several covers, the first, Scout at Ship’s Wheel, appearing on the Boys’ Life September 1913 edition. Some of Rockwell’s fondest early memories were of summers spent in the country enjoying an adventuresome and carefree existence. His parents took in and cared for boarders, leaving young Rockwell the freedom to spend his days as he wished. Rockwell recalled in his autobiography, “I have no bad memories of my summers in the country,” and remarked that his recollection of this time “all together formed an image of sheer blissfulness.” Many of his experiences during this special time are reflected in his later paintings. Rockwell’s involvement with The Saturday Evening Post began in 1916. His family had moved to New Rochelle, New York, where a then 21-year-old Rockwell shared a studio with cartoonist Clyde Forsythe, who worked for the Post. Forsythe helped Rockwell submit his first successful cover painting, Mother’s Day Off, to the Post in 1916. Forty-seven years later, Rockwell’s work had appeared 322 times on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post — the last, a portrait of John F. Kennedy, appeared in 1963, a week after the president’s assassination. Rockwell spent the last 10 years of his career painting about civil rights, poverty, and space exploration for Look magazine. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States of America’s highest civilian honor, in 1977 for “vivid and affectionate portraits of our country.“ | YouTube
VIDEO | FILM NORMAN ROCKWELL
Norman Rockwell Documentary | Sherway Academy of Music | Norman Perceval Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was a 20th-century American author, painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for its reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over nearly five decades.[1] Among the best-known of Rockwell’s works are the Willie Gillis series, Rosie the Riveter, The Problem We All Live With, Saying Grace, and the Four Freedoms series. He also is noted for his 64-year relationship with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), during which he produced covers for their publication Boys‘ Life, calendars, and other illustrations. These works include popular images that reflect the Scout Oath and Scout Law such as The Scoutmaster, A Scout is Reverent[2] and A Guiding Hand,[3] among many others. Norman Rockwell was a prolific artist, producing more than 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 also was commissioned to illustrate more than 40 books, including Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as well as painting the portraits for Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, as well as those of foreign figures, including Gamal Abdel Nasser and Jawaharlal Nehru. His portrait subjects included Judy Garland. One of his last portraits was of Colonel Sanders in 1973. 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[4]), 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. He painted six images for Coca-Cola advertising.[5] 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. Rockwell’s work was dismissed by serious art critics in his lifetime.[6] Many of his works appear overly sweet in the opinion of modern critics,[7] 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 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 that was what he called himself.[8] In his later years, however, Rockwell began receiving more attention as a painter when he chose more serious subjects such as the series on racism for Look magazine.[9] One example of this more serious work is The Problem We All Live With, which dealt with the issue of school racial integration. The painting depicts a young black girl, Ruby Bridges, flanked by white federal marshals, walking to school past a wall defaced by racist graffiti.[10] This painting was displayed in the White House when Bridges met with President Obama in 2011 | YouTube
Norman Rockwell and the Challenge of Realism | with Stephanie Haboush Plunkett | Norman Rockwell Museum | Recorded: Thursday, July 28, 2016 Deputy Director and Chief Curator Stephanie Plunkett traces the shifts in twentieth century art and the art of illustration during this interactive gallery walk exploring „Rockwell and Realism in an Abstract World.“ | YouTube
BIOGRAFIE NORMAN ROCKWELL
GEBURTSJAHR | GEBURTSORT | TODESJAHR | STERBEORT
AUSBILDUNG NORMAN ROCKWELL
LEHRTÄTIGKEIT NORMAN ROCKWELL
MITGLIEDSCHAFTEN NORMAN ROCKWELL
AUSZEICHNUNGEN NORMAN ROCKWELL
SAMMLUNGEN NORMAN ROCKWELL
AUSSTELLUNGEN NORMAN ROCKWELL
EINZELAUSSTELLUNGEN
GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNGEN
PROJEKTE | SYMPOSIEN
WERKBESCHREIBUNG NORMAN ROCKWELL
SCHWERPUNKTE | MEDIEN
STIL
THEMEN | MOTIVE | WERKE
DEFINITION | BESCHREIBUNG | MERKMALE
STICHWORTE NORMAN ROCKWELL
ZITATE NORMAN ROCKWELL
TEXT | BIBLIOGRAPHIE NORMAN ROCKWELL
LINKS NORMAN ROCKWELL
HOMEPAGE NORMAN ROCKWELL
NORMAN ROCKWELL
KUNSTWERKE NORMAN ROCKWELL
Norman Rockwell | A collection of 337 paintings | LearnFromMasters | Description: „Norman Perceval Rockwell, The Saturday Evening Post’s most famous illustrator, is considered by many to be one of America’s greatest artists. He was a master storyteller via canvas and paint, and his works, capturing the triumphs and foibles of the common man, are as popular today as they were in decades past. Rockwell’s talent flourished during a period referred to as “The Golden Age of Illustration,” when the nation enjoyed the brilliance of such illustrators as Winslow Homer, J.C. Leyendecker, Maxfield Parrish, N.C. Wyeth, and Ellen Pyle. Born in New York City on February 3, 1894, Rockwell always wanted to be an illustrator. He transferred to the Chase Art School at the age of 14, and then went on to the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League. There, he was taught by famous artists such as Thomas Fogarty, George Bridgman, and Frank Vincent DuMond. Rockwell’s first major commission came in 1912, when he was just 18, with his first book illustration for Carl H. Claudy’s Tell Me Why: Stories about Mother Nature. Rockwell later produced works for St. Nicholas Magazine and the Boy Scouts of America’s publication Boys’ Life, of which he later became the art editor. During his three year tenure (1913–1916), he painted several covers, the first, Scout at Ship’s Wheel, appearing on the Boys’ Life September 1913 edition. Some of Rockwell’s fondest early memories were of summers spent in the country enjoying an adventuresome and carefree existence. His parents took in and cared for boarders, leaving young Rockwell the freedom to spend his days as he wished. Rockwell recalled in his autobiography, “I have no bad memories of my summers in the country,” and remarked that his recollection of this time “all together formed an image of sheer blissfulness.” Many of his experiences during this special time are reflected in his later paintings. Rockwell’s involvement with The Saturday Evening Post began in 1916. His family had moved to New Rochelle, New York, where a then 21-year-old Rockwell shared a studio with cartoonist Clyde Forsythe, who worked for the Post. Forsythe helped Rockwell submit his first successful cover painting, Mother’s Day Off, to the Post in 1916. Forty-seven years later, Rockwell’s work had appeared 322 times on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post — the last, a portrait of John F. Kennedy, appeared in 1963, a week after the president’s assassination. Rockwell spent the last 10 years of his career painting about civil rights, poverty, and space exploration for Look magazine. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States of America’s highest civilian honor, in 1977 for “vivid and affectionate portraits of our country.“ | YouTube
VIDEO | FILM NORMAN ROCKWELL
Norman Rockwell Documentary | Sherway Academy of Music | Norman Perceval Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was a 20th-century American author, painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for its reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over nearly five decades.[1] Among the best-known of Rockwell’s works are the Willie Gillis series, Rosie the Riveter, The Problem We All Live With, Saying Grace, and the Four Freedoms series. He also is noted for his 64-year relationship with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), during which he produced covers for their publication Boys‘ Life, calendars, and other illustrations. These works include popular images that reflect the Scout Oath and Scout Law such as The Scoutmaster, A Scout is Reverent[2] and A Guiding Hand,[3] among many others. Norman Rockwell was a prolific artist, producing more than 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 also was commissioned to illustrate more than 40 books, including Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as well as painting the portraits for Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, as well as those of foreign figures, including Gamal Abdel Nasser and Jawaharlal Nehru. His portrait subjects included Judy Garland. One of his last portraits was of Colonel Sanders in 1973. 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[4]), 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. He painted six images for Coca-Cola advertising.[5] 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. Rockwell’s work was dismissed by serious art critics in his lifetime.[6] Many of his works appear overly sweet in the opinion of modern critics,[7] 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 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 that was what he called himself.[8] In his later years, however, Rockwell began receiving more attention as a painter when he chose more serious subjects such as the series on racism for Look magazine.[9] One example of this more serious work is The Problem We All Live With, which dealt with the issue of school racial integration. The painting depicts a young black girl, Ruby Bridges, flanked by white federal marshals, walking to school past a wall defaced by racist graffiti.[10] This painting was displayed in the White House when Bridges met with President Obama in 2011 | YouTube
Norman Rockwell and the Challenge of Realism | with Stephanie Haboush Plunkett | Norman Rockwell Museum | Recorded: Thursday, July 28, 2016 Deputy Director and Chief Curator Stephanie Plunkett traces the shifts in twentieth century art and the art of illustration during this interactive gallery walk exploring „Rockwell and Realism in an Abstract World.“ | YouTube
BIOGRAFIE NORMAN ROCKWELL
GEBURTSJAHR | GEBURTSORT | TODESJAHR | STERBEORT
AUSBILDUNG NORMAN ROCKWELL
LEHRTÄTIGKEIT NORMAN ROCKWELL
MITGLIEDSCHAFTEN NORMAN ROCKWELL
AUSZEICHNUNGEN NORMAN ROCKWELL
SAMMLUNGEN NORMAN ROCKWELL
AUSSTELLUNGEN NORMAN ROCKWELL
EINZELAUSSTELLUNGEN
GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNGEN
PROJEKTE | SYMPOSIEN
WERKBESCHREIBUNG NORMAN ROCKWELL
SCHWERPUNKTE | MEDIEN
STIL
THEMEN | MOTIVE | WERKE
DEFINITION | BESCHREIBUNG | MERKMALE
STICHWORTE NORMAN ROCKWELL
ZITATE NORMAN ROCKWELL
TEXT | BIBLIOGRAPHIE NORMAN ROCKWELL
LINKS NORMAN ROCKWELL
HOMEPAGE NORMAN ROCKWELL
