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![]() While still a teen, Rockwell became art director of the Boy Scouts of America publication Boys' Life.Īt 21, Rockwell moved to New Rochelle, New York, and opened a studio with fellow illustrator Victor Clyde Forsythe. Later, he attended the Art Students League of New York, where he studied under influential painters Thomas Fogarty and George Bridgman. His artistic aspirations took shape early on, and when he was 14 years old, he took classes at the New York School of the Art, which is now the Parsons School of Design. Rockwell was born in 1894 in New York City. ![]() In total, Norman Rockwell created more than 4,000 works of art over the course of his life. His figurative and portrait paintings reflect an innocent and idyllic America described by the artist as "life as I would like it to be." For nearly 50 years, he illustrated the covers of The Saturday Evening Post in a rich and emotive style that gave distinctive personalities to his imagined characters. ![]() Norman Rockwell is among the most revered painters of the 20th century.
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