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3 de may. de 2021 · May 03, 2021 1940s, behind the scenes, humor & hilarious, illustration, life & culture, photography, portraits, work of art. Have you heard the story behind Norman Rockwell’s cover The Gossips? Some say the painting was Rockwell’s revenge on a woman in Arlington, Vermont, who’d spread an ugly rumor about him.
Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over nearly five decades. Among the best-known of Rockwell's works are the Willie Gillis series, Rosie the Riveter , The Problem We All Live With , Saying Grace , and the Four Freedoms series.
- Norman Percevel Rockwell, February 3, 1894, New York City, U.S.
- Presidential Medal of Freedom
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14 de may. de 2011 · Rockwell was thrilled to see his first Saturday Evening Post cover on May 20, 1916. “Two million subscribers and then their wives, sons, daughters, aunts, uncles, friends. Wow!” he said when the possibility of a Post cover arose. He accomplished this coveted feat at the age of twenty-two.
At 22 Rockwell sold his first cover piece to The Saturday Evening Post —a prized commission for an illustrator. It was the beginning of a 323-cover relationship between Rockwell and the Post.
In 1916, the 22-year-old Rockwell painted his first cover for The Saturday Evening Post, the magazine considered by Rockwell to be the “greatest show window in America.” Over the next 47 years, 321 Rockwell covers would appear on the cover of the Post .
Norman Rockwell's Rosie the Riveter received mass distribution on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post on Memorial Day, May 29, 1943. Rockwell's illustration features a brawny woman taking her lunch break with a rivet gun on her lap, beneath her a copy of.
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), "The Gossips," 1948. Painting for "The Saturday Evening Post" cover, March 6, 1948. Oil on canvas. Private collection. ©SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN Stockbridge, MA, December 20, 2013—”The Gossips,” one of Norman Rockwell’s most popular paintings, has returned
