Norman Rockwell was bon on February 3, 1894 in New York City. His family resided in New York until Norman was nine then the family moved to Mamaroneck. Norman began taking weekly leave from high school while he was a freshman to attend the Chase School of Art on a part-time basis. He would leave high school for good as a sophomore to study art at the National Academy of Design. It wasn’t until 1911 that Rockwell would

Rockwell’s art has clearly become the most recognizable art in America’s time. His art brought the American people together as a whole to reminisce of the early stages of childhood innocents. He showed us what the idealistic American Dream was and he persuaded us as a country to fight for what is right and protect our freedoms that our ancestors fought so hard fro during World War 2. Norman Rockwell had a style uniquely his own, his illustrations looking so real at times, that it looks like he had just photographed the image onto canvas. His style was so simple but told you everything you needed to know which went on to define American art at perfection.

Throughout Rockwell’s 84 years of life he accomplished many things. In his 47 year career at the Evening Post he completed 4,000 illustrations. He also produced 332 covers for the Evening Post and the Post could automatically increase its print order by 250,000 copies when an issue had a cover by Rockwell. Eighty magazines used his cover illustrations but, by far, no paintings by an American were ever published on such a global scale as Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms.” The “Four Freedoms” were Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear. These original drawings were used by the United States Treasury during World War two to raise money for the war efforts. The war bonds circulated in a 16 city tour seen by 1,222,000 people who purchased over $133,000,000 in bonds with the “Four Freedoms” design. He illustrated 33 covers for the Post during the war. Rockwell was also commissioned to illustrate over 40 books including Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Rockwell also illustrated the Boy Scout calendars from 1925 to 1976. A few examples of his work included booklets, catalogs, posters (particularly movie promotions), sheet music, stamps, playing cards, and murals such as Yankee Do

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