He created a wonderful mythical land where children, their desires, hopes, lives, were the protagonists. He starter to draw for significant magazines like Life and The Saturday Evening Post he worked for the latter continuously for 47 years, making more than three hundred covers.īesides illustration, Rockwell loved to paint kids. He opened there a studio with a cartoonist friend, Clyde Forsythe. At 21, he moved with his family to New Rochelle, a New York suburb. He put on weight as quickly as possible and was drafted, with the task of being a military artist: he did not fight actively, but developed his artistic talent at the service. With the outbreak of the First World War, the artist attempted to enlist in the US Navy but was rejected because he was too thin. In 1914, at the age of 19 Rockwell became an artistic director of the magazine. The artist began to collaborate with some youth magazines, such as Boy's Life, and created the first cover, Scout at Ship's Wheel (1913). Then in 1911, he illustrated his first book Tell-Me-Why: Stories about Mother Nature by C.H. His aim was to become not a painter, but a professional illustrator.Īt 16, Rockwell started professionally illustrating Christmas themes for greeting cards. At the age of 14, he enrolled at the Chase Art School in Manhattan, and later the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League. The family house was full of books and Rockwell copied illustrations, improving his technique. The family used to spend holidays in the countryside, and, from an early age, the artist developed an idyllic vision of rural life. But in fact, he was born in New York City, and raised in a popular neighborhood, experiencing all the violence of city gangs. Looking at Rockwell's love for provincial life, one could imagine he was born and raised on a farm. ![]() His work is loved by Americans for its reflection of American culture, making him one of the most famous artists of the USA. Norman Perceval Rockwell was a 20th-century American author, painter, and illustrator.
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