Norman Rockwell - Kaila Donohue
Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell was born in New York City on February 3, 1894.
He knew he wanted to be an artist from a very young age. At 14, he left high school to study art seriously. He went to several art schools in New York City, including the Chase Art School, the National Academy of Design, and the Arts Student League.
After graduating, Norman got his first art job as an illustrator for Boys Life Magazine.
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When Norman was 21, his family moved to New Rochelle, NY, where he shared a studio with an artist friend who worked for the Saturday Evening Post.
At the time, the Saturday Evening Post was the most popular magazine in the United States, and Norman's biggest dream was to illustrate for the front cover.
With encouragement from his friend, Norman showed his work to the Post's editor. The editor loved him, and in 1916, Norman painted his first Post cover, titled Boy Pushing Baby Carriage.
Over the next 47 years, Norman painted 321 covers for the Saturday Evening Post.
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In 1930, Norman married Mary Bastow. They had 3 sons: Jarvis, Thomas, and Peter.
The family lived in New Rochelle for 9 years, and moved to Arlington, Vermont in 1939.
Norman's work began to reflect small town American life. Most of his illustrations show his sense of humor, and love of people.
Some art critics said he wasn't a good enough artist. But he paid no attention to criticism. Early on, Norman decided his art would show life only as he would like it to be.
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That didn't mean Norman ignored the important social issues.
In 1943, during World War 2, Norman painted the Four Freedoms series, inspired by a speech by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear all appeared on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.
The paintings also toured the United States on exhibition, raising more than 130 million dollars for the war effort.
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In 1953, the Rockwells moved to Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
This is where Norman would spend the rest of his life. In 1963, he painted his last painting for the Saturday Evening Post, and began working for Look Magazine - a job that would last for the next 10 years.
He began to turn his attention to the social issues facing the country, including civil rights, poverty, and space exploration.
He started receiving more attention as a painter who chose more serious social topics. An example of this is a painting called The Problem We All Live With. This painting deals with racism in schools.
It's a painting of a young girl, Ruby Bridges, walking to school escorted by federal marshals. In July, 2011, the painting was installed in the White House in the hall outside the Oval Office.
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In 1973, in order to preserve his artistic legacy, Norman created a trust of his original paintings and drawings. He placed his trust in the custodianship of Old Corner House Stockbridge Historical Society, which is called the Norman Rockwell Museum today.
In 1976, he arranged to have his studio, and any remaining art pieces added to the trust.
The following year, Norman received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is the highest civilian honor in the United States.
Norman died on November 6, 1978 in Stockbridge Massachusetts, at the age of 84. His career was spent creating paintings and illustrations that people felt were a part of everyday American life. It is easy to see why this remarkable man from New York had become one of America's all time favorites artists.
Raw: Rockwell's Models Reunite in Vermont
Twenty or so residents of the small Vermont town of Arlington who were children when they posed in the 1940s for Norman Rockwell are reuniting Saturday to share their memories of the great American artist. (Sept. 28)
'Saying Grace' Norman Rockwell's 1951 Thanksgiving cover for the Saturday Evening Post has sold for
A NORMAN ROCKWELL PAINTING HAS SET NEW RECORDS AT AUCTION.
'SAYING GRACE' THE THANKSGIVING COVER OF THE SATURDAY EVENING POST IN NOVEMBER OF 1951 HAS SOLD FOR JUST OVER FORTY-SIX MILLION DOLLARS. ($46,085,000 )
SOUNDBITE (English) Elizabeth Goldberg, Head of American Art Department, Sotheby's
It's a picture that Rockwell had thought about for close to a year before he started painting it, and as soon as it was published it was hugely popular.
'SAYING GRACE' WAS PART OF A COLLECTION OF ROCKWELL'S WORKS THAT WERE PUT UP FOR SALE BY THE FAMILY OF KENNETH STUART SR., THE FORMER ART EDITOR OF THE SATURDAY EVENING POST.
SOUNDBITE (English) Elizabeth Goldberg, Head of American Art Department, Sotheby's
Rockwell gave the pictures to Stuart. Then they went to his children. They've been on view at the Rockwell museum for the last fifteen years or so.
TWO OTHER WORKS, WALKING TO CHURCH AND 'THE GOSSIPS' ALSO WENT TO NEW OWNERS.
SOUNDBITE (English) Elizabeth Goldberg, Head of American Art Department, Sotheby's
All of these are his neighbors in Arlington, Vermont and he was clever enough to put himself into the picture. He's the figure second to the last, and also his wife.
THE PREVIOUS AUCTION RECORD FOR AN AMERICAN ARTIST WAS GEORGE BELLOWS'S 'POLO CROWD' WHICH SOLD FOR $27.7 MILLION. ROCKWELL'S PREVIOUS RECORD WAS $15.4 MILLION FOR 'BREAKING HOME TIES'.
BONNY GHOSH - ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Norman Rockwell 諾曼·洛克威爾 (1894-1978) Regionalism American
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Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed.—Norman Rockwell
Born in New York City in 1894, Norman Rockwell always wanted to be an artist. At age 14, Rockwell enrolled in art classes at The New York School of Art (formerly The Chase School of Art). Two years later, in 1910, he left high school to study art at The National Academy of Design. He soon transferred to The Art Students League, where he studied with Thomas Fogarty and George Bridgman. Fogarty’s instruction in illustration prepared Rockwell for his first commercial commissions. From Bridgman, Rockwell learned the technical skills on which he relied throughout his long career.
Rockwell found success early. He painted his first commission of four Christmas cards before his sixteenth birthday. While still in his teens, he was hired as art director of Boys’ Life, the official publication of the Boy Scouts of America, and began a successful freelance career illustrating a variety of young people’s publications.
At age 21, Rockwell’s family moved to New Rochelle, New York, a community whose residents included such famous illustrators as J.C. and Frank Leyendecker and Howard Chandler Christy. There, Rockwell set up a studio with the cartoonist Clyde Forsythe and produced work for such magazines as Life, Literary Digest, and Country Gentleman. In 1916, the 22-year-old Rockwell painted his first cover for The Saturday Evening Post, the magazine considered by Rockwell to be the “greatest show window in America.” Over the next 47 years, another 321 Rockwell covers would appear on the cover of the Post. Also in 1916, Rockwell married Irene O’Connor; they divorced in 1930.
The 1930s and 1940s are generally considered to be the most fruitful decades of Rockwell’s career. In 1930 he married Mary Barstow, a schoolteacher, and the couple had three sons, Jarvis, Thomas, and Peter. The family moved to Arlington, Vermont, in 1939, and Rockwell’s work began to reflect small-town American life.
In 1943, inspired by President Franklin Roosevelt’s address to Congress, Rockwell painted the Four Freedoms paintings. They were reproduced in four consecutive issues of The Saturday Evening Post with essays by contemporary writers. Rockwell’s interpretations ofFreedom of Speech, Freedom to Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear proved to be enormously popular. The works toured the United States in an exhibition that was jointly sponsored by the Post and the U.S. Treasury Department and, through the sale of war bonds, raised more than $130 million for the war effort.
Although the Four Freedoms series was a great success, 1943 also brought Rockwell an enormous loss. A fire destroyed his Arlington studio as well as numerous paintings and his collection of historical costumes and props.
In 1953, the Rockwell family moved from Arlington, Vermont, to Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Six years later, Mary Barstow Rockwell died unexpectedly. In collaboration with his son Thomas, Rockwell published his autobiography, My Adventures as an Illustrator, in 1960. The Saturday Evening Post carried excerpts from the best-selling book in eight consecutive issues, with Rockwell’s Triple Self-Portrait on the cover of the first.
In 1961, Rockwell married Molly Punderson, a retired teacher. Two years later, he ended his 47-year association with The Saturday Evening Post and began to work for Look magazine. During his 10-year association with Look, Rockwell painted pictures illustrating some of his deepest concerns and interests, including civil rights, America’s war on poverty, and the exploration of space.
In 1973, Rockwell established a trust to preserve his artistic legacy by placing his works in the custodianship of the Old Corner House Stockbridge Historical Society, later to become Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge. The trust now forms the core of the Museum’s permanent collections. In 1976, in failing health, Rockwell became concerned about the future of his studio. He arranged to have his studio and its contents added to the trust. In 1977, Rockwell received the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
In 2008, Rockwell was named the official state artist of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, thanks to a dedicated effort from students in Berkshire County, where Rockwell lived for the last 25 years of his life.
諾曼·洛克威爾（Norman Rockwell，1894年2月3日－1978年11月8日）是美國在20世紀早期的重要畫家及插畫家，作品橫跨商業宣傳與美國文化。他一生中的繪畫作品大都經由《星期六晚郵報》刊出，其中最知名的系列作品是在1940和50年代出現的。如《四大自由》與《女子鉚釘工》。
諾曼於1894年2月3日出生在紐約市。[1][2][3] 14歲時由高中轉學到Chase Art school，之後進入國家設計學院就讀，最後轉入紐約藝術學生聯盟中。在那裏他受到Thomas Fogarty、Geroge Bridgman及Frank Vincent Dumond的教導。他早期曾為《聖尼可拉斯雜誌》畫過商業繪畫作品；以及美國童軍協會的刊物《童軍的一天》長期插畫，還有其他青少年出版物。
他第一份比較重要的工作是在1912年，為作家卡爾·哈里·克勞迪的書《Tell Me Why: Stories about Mother Nature》做全書的插畫，這也是他第一份書本插畫的工作。
Rockwell's Models
Norman Rockwell used everyday people as the models for his illustrations. On Saturday, September 29, 2012, in Arlington Vermont, there was a reunion of Rockwell's models. I interviewed a few of them, to get their story.
Remembering Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis
Bob Buck, the original model for Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis series talks with Norman Rockwell Museum about his experience posing for his Arlington, VT, neighbor, and America's favorite illustrator. Army private Willie Gillis appeared on several Saturday Evening Post covers created by Rockwell from 1941-1946-- it was one of Rockwell's many efforts to help boost public morale during World War II.
A long-time friend of Norman Rockwell Museum, Mr. Buck passed away in May 2011 (coincidentally, near Memorial Day).
Video produced by Jeremy Clowe for Norman Rockwell Museum.
Artwork
Norman Rockwell's Home For The Holidays
Rockwell's Hometown in the 1940's as depicted by these houses authorized by the Rockwell Family Trust in 1992-1993
Meet Rockwell's Models: Freedom From Fear
Back in the early 1940s, Marjorie Coulter posed as the little girl in Norman Rockwell's iconic painting, Freedom From Fear. She will join us this Friday, September 4, 2:30 p.m. to talk about her experiences!
Here is a preview of Marjorie and her fellow Rockwell model, Ardis Edgerton, sharing their memories of working with America's favorite artist during his time in Arlington, Vermont.
Meet Rockwell's Models programs are held every first Friday of the month.
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'Saying Grace' Norman Rockwell's 1951 Thanksgiving cover for the Saturday Evening Post has sold for
A NORMAN ROCKWELL PAINTING HAS SET NEW RECORDS AT AUCTION.
'SAYING GRACE' THE THANKSGIVING COVER OF THE SATURDAY EVENING POST IN NOVEMBER OF 1951 HAS SOLD FOR JUST OVER FORTY-SIX MILLION DOLLARS. ($46,085,000 )
SOUNDBITE (English) Elizabeth Goldberg, Head of American Art Department, Sotheby's
It's a picture that Rockwell had thought about for close to a year before he started painting it, and as soon as it was published it was hugely popular.
'SAYING GRACE' WAS PART OF A COLLECTION OF ROCKWELL'S WORKS THAT WERE PUT UP FOR SALE BY THE FAMILY OF KENNETH STUART SR., THE FORMER ART EDITOR OF THE SATURDAY EVENING POST.
SOUNDBITE (English) Elizabeth Goldberg, Head of American Art Department, Sotheby's
Rockwell gave the pictures to Stuart. Then they went to his children. They've been on view at the Rockwell museum for the last fifteen years or so.
TWO OTHER WORKS, WALKING TO CHURCH AND 'THE GOSSIPS' ALSO WENT TO NEW OWNERS.
SOUNDBITE (English) Elizabeth Goldberg, Head of American Art Department, Sotheby's
All of these are his neighbors in Arlington, Vermont and he was clever enough to put himself into the picture. He's the figure second to the last, and also his wife.
THE PREVIOUS AUCTION RECORD FOR AN AMERICAN ARTIST WAS GEORGE BELLOWS'S 'POLO CROWD' WHICH SOLD FOR $27.7 MILLION. ROCKWELL'S PREVIOUS RECORD WAS $15.4 MILLION FOR 'BREAKING HOME TIES'.
BONNY GHOSH - ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Harvey and Lewis Celebrates 60th Anniversary of Norman Rockwell Painting
Thursday, May 19th, 2016, marked the sixtieth anniversary of the Saturday Evening Post issue, which featured Norman Rockwell’s famous painting titled “New Glasses”. President and owner of Harvey and Lewis, Jim Lewis, and Steve Nesko, the young boy captured in the painting, joined Better Connecticut's Kara Sundlun and Scot Haney to celebrate the painting's 60th anniversary.
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Norman Rockwell 諾曼·洛克威爾 (1894-1978) Regionalism American
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Norman Rockwell Born in New York City in 1894, Norman Rockwell always wanted to be an artist. At age 14, Rockwell enrolled in art classes at The New York School of Art (formerly The Chase School of Art). Two years later, in 1910, he left high school to study art at The National Academy of Design. He soon transferred to The Art Students League, where he studied with Thomas Fogarty and George Bridgman. Fogarty’s instruction in illustration prepared Rockwell for his first commercial commissions. From Bridgman, Rockwell learned the technical skills on which he relied throughout his long career.
Rockwell found success early. He painted his first commission of four Christmas cards before his sixteenth birthday. While still in his teens, he was hired as art director of Boys’ Life, the official publication of the Boy Scouts of America, and began a successful freelance career illustrating a variety of young people’s publications.
At age 21, Rockwell’s family moved to New Rochelle, New York, a community whose residents included such famous illustrators as J.C. and Frank Leyendecker and Howard Chandler Christy. There, Rockwell set up a studio with the cartoonist Clyde Forsythe and produced work for such magazines as Life, Literary Digest, and Country Gentleman. In 1916, the 22-year-old Rockwell painted his first cover for The Saturday Evening Post, the magazine considered by Rockwell to be the “greatest show window in America.” Over the next 47 years, another 321 Rockwell covers would appear on the cover of the Post. Also in 1916, Rockwell married Irene O’Connor; they divorced in 1930.
The 1930s and 1940s are generally considered to be the most fruitful decades of Rockwell’s career. In 1930 he married Mary Barstow, a schoolteacher, and the couple had three sons, Jarvis, Thomas, and Peter. The family moved to Arlington, Vermont, in 1939, and Rockwell’s work began to reflect small-town American life.
In 1943, inspired by President Franklin Roosevelt’s address to Congress, Rockwell painted the Four Freedoms paintings. They were reproduced in four consecutive issues of The Saturday Evening Post with essays by contemporary writers. Rockwell’s interpretations ofFreedom of Speech, Freedom to Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear proved to be enormously popular. The works toured the United States in an exhibition that was jointly sponsored by the Post and the U.S. Treasury Department and, through the sale of war bonds, raised more than $130 million for the war effort.
Although the Four Freedoms series was a great success, 1943 also brought
In 2008, Rockwell was named the official state artist of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, thanks to a dedicated effort from students in Berkshire County, where Rockwell lived for the last 25 years of his life.
諾曼·洛克威爾（Norman Rockwell，1894年2月3日－1978年11月8日）是美國在20世紀早期的重要畫家及插畫家，作品橫跨商業宣傳與美國文化。他一生中的繪畫作品大都經由《星期六晚郵報》刊出，其中最知名的系列作品是在1940和50年代出現的。如《四大自由》與《女子鉚釘工》。
諾曼於1894年2月3日出生在紐約市。[1][2][3] 14歲時由高中轉學到Chase Art school，之後進入國家設計學院就讀，最後轉入紐約藝術學生聯盟中。在那裡他受到Thomas Fogarty、Geroge Bridgman及Frank Vincent Dumond的教導。他早期曾為《聖尼可拉斯雜誌》畫過商業繪畫作品；以及美國童軍協會的刊物《童軍的一天》長期插畫，還有其他青少年出版物。
他第一份比較重要的工作是在1912年，為作家卡爾·哈里·克勞迪的書《Tell Me Why: Stories about Mother Nature》做全書的插畫，這也是他第一份書本插畫的工作。
第一次世界大戰時，諾曼加入了美國海軍，起初軍醫因他體重過輕而拒絕他參軍（他離標準體重差了8磅），後來他花了一晚狂吃香蕉、甜甜圈和大量飲料之後，體重總算過關，然而他在海軍中被分到的工作卻是軍中畫家，與體力勞動沒有關係。
諾曼在21歲時搬到了紐約州的紐洛雪鎮（New Rochelle），並開始有了自己的工作室（與一位卡通畫家Clyde Forsythe合租），他的室友當時正好在為星期六晚郵報工作，並順帶引薦諾曼在1916年，開始為星期六晚郵報畫封面。1916年5月20日，是他第一幅作品《Boy with Baby Carriage》被刊出的日期。同年他娶了艾琳·歐康諾（Irene O'Connor）為妻。1930年，他與艾琳離婚，並很快的與小學教師瑪莉·芭絲桃（Mary Barstow）結婚，生了三個孩子，分別是賈維斯Jarvis，湯瑪斯Thomas和彼得Peter。1939年，諾曼舉家搬遷到佛蒙特州的阿靈頓鎮Arlington，生活趨於穩定，並以阿靈頓鎮為靈感來源，畫出了許多美國小鎮生活的主題畫。
第二次世界大戰時，諾曼在七個月內完成了《四大自由》的系列畫作，體重也下降了15磅，此系列畫作是根據美國總統羅斯福的全球人權演說：「人有四種自由，分別是言論自由、信仰自由、免於匱乏的自由、免於恐懼的自由」而畫，在1943年由星期六晚郵報出版，美國財政部隨後在16個城市中舉行原畫作的巡迴展，以推銷美國戰爭公債（War Bonds）。同年，諾曼的畫室起火，損失了不少畫作和財產。
2008年，羅克韋爾被評為馬薩諸塞州聯邦官方國家藝術家，得益於伯克郡郡的學生們的熱切努力，洛克威爾生活在過去25年。
Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg reveal their insights into Rockwell's art and why certain works appealed to them. Telling Stories is the first major exhibition to explore the connections between Norman Rockwell's iconic images of American life and the movies.
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Mary Rockwell's Interview
Mary Rockwell was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma. She had just graduated from high school when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in late 1941. After working for the Tennessee Valley Authority for a short period, she was hired as a secretary at the Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge, TN. In this interview, Mary describes life at Oak Ridge during the war and meeting her future husband Ted, who was a graduate student at Princeton working as an engineer at the Y-12 plant. Ted and Mary were married at the Chapel-on-the-Hill in Oak Ridge.
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Norman Rockwell
Norman Perceval Rockwell was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine for more than four decades. 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 is also noted for his work for the Boy Scouts of America , producing covers for their publication Boys' Life, calendars, and other illustrations.
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