Best of Norman Rockwell. Signed by 5 of his models. 1998 Hardcover

When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.

Best of Norman Rockwell. Signed by 5 of his models. 1998 Hardcover:
$69.95

The Best of Norman Rockwell. Signed by 5 of his models. 1998 Hardcover
Very unique item.
From an estate - I am not an expert in booksor literature.
Autographed photo of 5 of his models/subjects for his paintings glued inside the front cover.
- See photos
Book itself in excellent condition but the dust cover is worn - it is what it is.

Norman Percevel Rockwell(February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was a 20th-century American author, painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection ofAmerican culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created forThe Saturday Evening Postmagazine over nearly five decades.[1]Among the best-known of Rockwell\'s works are theWillie Gillisseries,Rosie the Riveter,The Problem We All Live With,Saying Grace, and theFour Freedomsseries. He also is noted for his 64-year relationship with theBoy Scouts of America(BSA), during which he produced covers for their publicationBoys\' Life, calendars, and other illustrations. These works include popular images that reflect theScout OathandScout Lawsuch asThe Scoutmaster,A Scout is Reverent[2]andA Guiding Hand,[3]among many others.

Norman Rockwell was a prolific artist, producing more than 4,000 original works in his lifetime. Most of his works are either in public collections, or have been destroyed in fire or other misfortunes. Rockwell also was commissioned to illustrate more than 40 books, includingTom SawyerandHuckleberry Finnas well as painting the portraits for PresidentsEisenhower,Kennedy,Johnson, andNixon, as well as those of foreign figures, includingGamal Abdel NasserandJawaharlal Nehru. His portrait subjects includedJudy Garland. One of his last portraits was ofColonel Sandersin 1973. His annual contributions for the Boy Scouts calendars between 1925 and 1976 (Rockwell was a 1939 recipient of theSilver Buffalo Award, the highest adult award given by theBoy Scouts of America[4]), were only slightly overshadowed by his most popular of calendar works: the \"Four Seasons\" illustrations forBrown & Bigelowthat were published for 17 years beginning in 1947 and reproduced in various styles and sizes since 1964. He painted six images for Coca-Cola advertising.[5]Illustrations for booklets, catalogs, posters (particularly movie promotions), sheet music, stamps, playing cards, and murals (including \"Yankee Doodle Dandy\" and \"God Bless the Hills\", which was completed in 1936 for theNassau InninPrinceton, New Jersey) rounded out Rockwell\'s œuvre as an illustrator.

Rockwell\'s work was dismissed by serious art critics in his lifetime.[6]Many of his works appear overly sweet in the opinion of modern critics,[7]especially theSaturday Evening Postcovers, which tend toward idealistic or sentimentalized portrayals of American life. This has led to the often-deprecatory adjective, \"Rockwellesque\". Consequently, Rockwell is not considered a \"serious painter\" by some contemporary artists, who regard his work asbourgeoisandkitsch. WriterVladimir Nabokovsneered that Rockwell\'s brilliant technique was put to \"banal\" use, and wrote in his bookPnin: \"ThatDalíis really Norman Rockwell\'s twin brother kidnapped by Gypsies in babyhood\". He is called an \"illustrator\" instead of an artist by some critics, a designation he did not mind, as that was what he called himself.[8]

In his later years, however, Rockwell began receiving more attention as a painter when he chose more serious subjects such as the series on racism forLookmagazine.[9]One example of this more serious work isThe Problem We All Live With, which dealt with the issue of schoolracial integration. The painting depicts a young black girl,Ruby Bridges, flanked by whitefederal marshals, walking to school past a wall defaced by racist graffiti.[10]This painting was displayed in theWhite Housewhen Bridges met with President Obama in 2011