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Norman Rockwell: America's Artist

            
             Rockwell, the best know artist in American, was born on 1894 in New York City (Norman Rockwell-Biography). He was best known to paint realistic illustrations of people. Many of his works told a story about what was going on in America at that time. Rockwell usually painted familiar faces of settings. He did many portraits of famous people like movies stars and many presidents. .
             When Rockwell was nine years old he moved to the suburbs with his family. While still in high school, Rockwell decided to leave school to attend the National Academy of Design's art school. He earned his pay by designing and painting cards and teaching people to paint. He learned from other great illustrators such as Clyde Forsyth to further enhance his skills and he taught actress Ethel Barrymore to paint using some of the same techniques. [Norman Rockwell: Pictures ] .
             Rockwell's real legacy of illustrations began at the age of 16 and attending a new art school. He transferred to Art Students League to learn to paint better (Buechner). Rockwell wanted to paint more realistic pictures that told stories or events. His success allowed him to illustrate books at the age of 17 and become the art director for the magazine "Boys Life" (Guptill). Again his success would land him the opportunity that would make him widely know across America. At the age of 22, Rockwell had already painted 22 covers for George Horace Lorimer's magazine "Saturday Evening Post" (Guptill). On average, he produced 10 covers per year for the popular magazine.
             Norman Rockwell would do most of is illustrations using charcoal. He likes to use the grid method for his larger paintings. First he would sketch a small picture of what he was drawing, and then make drawings of each little part of the original sketch in large portions. After he drew all the sections larger, he would fit them together to make a larger picture of the original sketch.


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