“Maybe as I grew up and found the world wasn't the perfectly pleasant place I had thought it would be, I unconsciously decided that if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be, and so I painted only the ideal aspects of it.”

About Norman Rockwell

Painter • American

Norman Percevel Rockwell was a prolific American painter and illustrator celebrated for his nostalgic and idealistic portrayals of American life. For over four decades, he produced cover illustrations for The Saturday...