Who Was Norman Rockwell?

Written by Sarah Fabiny and Who HQ · Illustrated by Gregory Copeland

Part of the Who Was . . . ? series

Discover the idealistic world of Norman Rockwell through his iconic American paintings.

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112 pages· 7,862 words· Est. 1 hour read· 890L

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Explore the life of Norman Rockwell, a painter who captured the essence of American life with humor and nostalgia. Inspired by President Roosevelt's 1943 speech, Rockwell created four iconic paintings reflecting universal rights. With 322 Saturday Evening Post covers, he painted an ideal world amidst reality's imperfections. What drove him to depict such a vision? Dive into his journey and uncover the stories behind his art.

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Brush up your knowledge on popular American painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell with this exciting Who Was? title. Norman Rockwell often painted what he saw around him in nostalgic and humorous ways. After hearing President Franklin Roosevelt’s address to Congress in 1943, he was inspired to create paintings that described the principles for universal rights: four paintings that portray iconic images of the American experience. Over the course of his lifetime, he painted 322 covers for the Saturday Evening Post. Of his work, he has said: Maybe as I grew up and found the world wasn’t the perfect place I thought it to be, I consciously decided that if it wasn’t an ideal world, it should be, and so painted only the ideal aspects of it.

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