<p>At the outset of his career, Norman Rockwell was not the most likely candidate for long-term celebrity; he was just one of many skilful illustrators working within the conventions of the day. But there was something tenacious about his vision, and something uncanny about his access to the wellsprings of public taste. Although technically he was an academic painter, he had the eye of a photographer and, as he became a mature artist, he used this eye to give us a picture of America that was familiar - astonishingly so - and at the same time unique.</p><p><br></p><p>It seems familiar because it was everyone''s dream of America; and it was unique because only Rockwell managed to bring it to life with such authority. This was, perhaps, an America that never existed, but it was an America the public wanted to exist. And Rockwell put it together from elements that were there for everyone to see.</p><p>Rockwell helped preserve American myths, but, more than that, he recreated them and made
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Norman Rockwell's best-loved works, collected in a handsome clothbound volume. Rockwell best expressed this vision of America in his justly famous cover illustrations for the Saturday Evening Post, painted between 1916 and 1963.
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First appearing on the cover of the February 13, 1960 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, "Triple Self Portrait" is one of the legendary Norman Rockwell''s most famous paintings — and now it graces this affordable, pocket-sized...
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"Norman Rockwell's son, Tom, has put together the absolute finest collection of his father's bounteous body of work, illustrations that bespeak the golden glow of pre- and post-WWII Americana. Rockwell"
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