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Norman RockwellNorman Rockwell "Family Tree" Lithograph1921
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Norman Rockwell (American, 1894-1978)
Family Tree
Original painting produced 1959, this print published 1959 in Japan by The Curtis Publishing Company
Lithograph
Sight: 19 1/4 x 13 3/4
Framed: 27 x 21 1/4 x 1 in.
Signed in plate
When Norman Rockwell was 9, his genteel middle-income family moved to Mamaroneck, New York. His grandfather was Howard Hill, an unsuccessful English artist. As a high school freshman, he studied at the Chase School of Art. The next year he left high school for the National Academy of Art, earning his way through odd jobs that included designing cards for Arnold Constable and teaching painting to Ethel Barrymore—"me, a long, gawky kind bending over graceful Ethel Barrymore, guiding her shapely hand across the paper…my great Adam's apple churning up and down my neck." At 16, he transferred to the Art Students League to learn to "paint storytelling pictures." He was the pupil of Bridgman for life class and of Fogarty for illustration. At 17, he was illustrating books, and at 18 was art director for Boys Life. When his parents moved to New Rochelle, New York, he shared a studio there with the established illustrator Clyde Forsyth. At 22, he sold his first five covers to George Horace Lorimer of The Saturday Evening Post—the beginning of 318 such covers in a career that made Rockwell the most popular living American artist.
His procedure was to pencil a loose 2 x 3" sketch on a scrap of paper. Second, make individual drawings or (after 1937) photographs of each element of the painting, using the models and props he gathered, on the spot or in a simulated background. Third, do a full-size charcoal drawing. Fourth, make color sketches for the final painting—or, project a photograph onto a white canvas, draw with charcoal, and paint. Rockwell is not a Western artist and had not been West when he painted his 8/13/27 cover of the "old-timey" cowboy with his nostalgic gear. The 4/23/38 cover was a bedraggled Indian. The 9/25/54 cover showed the rancher's son off to college. In 1966, Rockwell did a promotional series for the movie "Stagecoach." In 1969, Rockwell went to Arizona for a painting of Glen Canyon Dam that included the neighboring Navajos. His portrait of the actor John Wayne hangs in the Cowboy Hall of Fame.
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- Creator:Norman Rockwell (1894 - 1978, American)
- Creation Year:1921
- Dimensions:Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Condition:Not examined outside of the frame.
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:Seller: BU41stDibs: LU2211215382722
Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell is among the most revered painters of the 20th century. 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. In total, Norman Rockwell created more than 4,000 works of art over the course of his life.
Rockwell was born in 1894 in New York City. 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. Later, he attended the Art Students League of New York, where he studied under influential painters Thomas Fogarty and George Bridgman. While still a teen, Rockwell became art director of the Boy Scouts of America publication Boys' Life.
At 21, Rockwell moved to New Rochelle, New York, and opened a studio with fellow illustrator Victor Clyde Forsythe. He created illustrations for magazines like Literary Digest and Life before his first cover for The Saturday Evening Post was published when he was 22. In 1939, after moving to Arlington, Vermont, Rockwell pivoted to making the nostalgic paintings of small-town and iconic America for which he is best known — scenes of Christmas dinner, children playing in the street and national treasures like Ruby Bridges and Rosie the Riveter.
In 1943, a speech previously given by President Franklin Roosevelt inspired Rockwell to create his most famous series, “The Four Freedoms,” which was exhibited all over the United States. The series included four pieces entitled Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Worship, Freedom from Want and Freedom from Fear.
Rockwell moved with his family to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1953, where he spent the rest of his life. My Adventures as an Illustrator — the autobiography Rockwell wrote with the help of his son, Thomas — was published in 1960. In 1963, Rockwell ceased working with The Saturday Evening Post and started drawing illustrations for Look magazine.
The world’s largest collection of original Rockwell art can be found at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge. The artist was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977, and he passed away peacefully in his home the following year.
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