Norman Rockwell

Early Life

Norman Rockwell was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator who was born on the third of February eighteen ninety-four in New York and died on the eighteenth of November nineteen seventy-eight in Stockbridge, so he was 84 years old when he died. He was a naturalist painter of American life in the twentieth century. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over more than four decades.

Norman went to high school to the Chase Art School at the age of 14. Then he went on to the National Academy of Design and finally to the Art Students League. There, he perfected his know-how with George Bridgeman, Thomas Fogarty and Frank Vincent DuMond. His early works were produced for St. Nicholas Magazine, the Boy Scouts of America illustrating the magazine Boys’ life.

As a student, Rockwell was given smaller, less important jobs. His first major breakthrough came in 1912 at age eighteen with his first book illustration for Carl Harry Claudy's Tell Me Why: Stories about Mother Nature.

In 1913, Rockwell became the art editor for Boys' Life, published by the Boy Scouts of America, a post he held for three years. As part of that position, he painted several covers, beginning with his first published magazine cover, Scout at Ship's Wheel, appearing on the Boys' Life September 1913 edition.

Personal Life

Rockwell married his first wife, Irene O'Connor, in 1916. Irene was Rockwell's model in Mother Tucking Children into Bed. However, they divorced in 1930.
The following year he married Mary Barstow, with whom he had three children: Jarvis Waring, Thomas Rhodes and Peter Barstow. The family lived at 24 Lord Kitchener Road in the Bonnie Crest neighborhood of New Rochelle in New York.

Rockwell and his wife were not very religious, although they were members of St. John's Wilmot Church, an Episcopal church near their home.
Rockwell moved to