NORMAN ROCKWELL

by Ethan Kozo

EARLY LIFE• Born in 1894, in New York City• Grew up in a rough and tough

neighborhood• Was super skinny and terrible at sports• Drawing was the only thing he’s good at• Left high school to go to art academies• Loved the work of Howard Pyle, an artist

who did realistic paintings of King Arthur or pirates

Influences, Training• Was taught by Thomas Fogarty and George

Bridgman at the Art Students League• Attended the National Academy of Design• Clyde Forsythe, a cartoonist and illustrator,

urged Rockwell to send a cover illustration to the Saturday Evening Post, at that time a popular weekly magazine

Career Highlights

• Rockwell’s first cover on the Saturday Evening Post appeared in 1916, when Norman was 22 years old. It features two boys who are making fun of a third boy because he has to babysit.

FAVORITE PAINTINGS• Rockwell was known

for his sense of humor and his paintings represented everyday things

• Rockwell used lots of kids in his paintings and was very creative with people’s expressions like in “Boy on High Dive”

OTHER FAVORITES• In “Going and

Coming”, you can see how everyone looks excited on the way there, and everyone looks sleepy on the way back

FAVORITE PAINTINGS

• I like this painting because it has a lot of detail and it looks like the dog is about to lick the paint

LATER LIFE

• Later he lived in Stockbridge, Massachusetts

• He soon died in 1978• He could draw people and objects as

well as any other artist and used lots of detail in his paintings

Museums where you can find his art

• Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas• Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington,

Delaware• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New

York,New York• Norman Rockwell Museum at

Stockbridge, Stockbridge, Massachusetts