Norman Rockwell And “The Post”
Norman Rockwell was a 20th century painter and illustrator born in America Broadly speaking, his work appealed to, many in the United States He used to make illustrations for this publication and his illustrations were depiction of common life scenes He got his professional training from here He can be easily called as an American Icon of his times Americans loved him and they loved what he did for the Post, which almost all Americans enjoyed reading This was a weekly publication in the early years , with just once a week feature Precisely from august 1821 until February 1969 and then later it became monthly publication Later in the 19th century after Norman Rockwell Saturday Evening Post, had fallen on hard times, Mr. Lorimer rebuilt it and this time round this publication was meant to be a premier magazine and circulation was to run in millions
While his father used to read Charles Dickens to him, in his earliest recollections he used to draw Dickens characters He was very hard working even at the age of 15. Deacon, in Greek means a servant, so like a servant works hard, they referred to him with that characteristic. C.H. Claudy’s ‘Tell me why stories about Mother Nature and a little time later Gabrielle Jackson’s Maid of Middies’ Haven were two of his initial works that won him a lot of appreciation. This was the moment of success and he was never to look back I life again.The cover was “Boy with Baby carriage “which was published in 1916 This led to a very successful series of Norman Rockwell Saturday Evening Post, cover which went on for a period of glorious 47 years This was a very important publication in those times
Life in 1917, The Country Gentleman in the year 1917 and in the literary digest in the year 1918, all has his work published in them. The illustrations on the cover were so interesting that almost everyone in America read The Post With The post, now being run by Mr. Lorimer, Norman Rockwell was paid for his work instantly and even more than ever before The returns from The Post were very lucrative The money that he received was in abundance He was ecstatic when he came to know that he would be published on the cover of the most important American publication The Post By virtue of being published on the cover of The Post, Norman Rockwell; well earned a reputation of being an artist; with popular appreciation and following
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April 7, 2011
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