Norman Rockwell was an artist who was most famous for creating illustrations of everyday life scenarios for magazines. Rockwell also drew pictures for his 64 year relationship with boy scouts. during world war 2 he painted the four freedoms which were freedom of want, freedom of speech, freedom of worship, and freedom from fear.
in 1943 a fire in his studio destroyed loads of Rockwell's masterpieces. Rockwell eventually came up with a second phase for his career to draw modern characters and solutions. he eventually meet Elliot Caplin who was the brother of cartoonist Al Capp then eventually thought they should make a daily comic strip, in 1963 Rockwell painted his last post. he published 321 cover painting. in 1968 Rockwell was commissioned to draw cover portraits of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper he was also commissioned to draw president Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Jawaharlal Nehru. one of his last drawings was a portrait of Judy Garland in 1969. in 1977 Rockwell received the presidential medal of freedom. Rockwell Died November 8 1978 at the age of 84
At this museum i saw most of his Saturday evening post covers, the four pictures of freedom, the art studio (the way he left it) and some pictures of boy scouts.
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| Some of Norman Rockwell's Boy Scout pictures |
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| Me in front of two Norman Rockwell Boy Scout pictures |
