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In America, artists’ works are not only shown in museums, they are often displayed on magazine covers. Norman Rockwell produced cover paintings for the Saturday Evening Post, a major magazine of the 1910’s and for many decades later. In the process he became a nationally renowned artist. His precise detail brought him great popularity. “He created a moral myth in which people were reassured of their own essential goodness,” art critic Arthur C Danto told …showed first 75 words of 1447 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1447 total…calendar. In 1976 the city of Stockbridge celebrated a Norman Rockwell Day. On November 8, 1978, Rockwell died in his home in Stockbridge. Bibliography Bibliography Moline, Mary, Norman Rockwell Encyclopedia: A Chronological Catalog of the Artist’s Work 1910-1978, Curtis Publishing Company, 1979 Rockwell, Norman: My Adventures as an Illustrator, Curtis Publishing Company Walton, Donald, A Rockwell Portrait, Sheed Andrews and McMeel, Inc., 1978 Life, November 13,1970, p.16; July 1993, pp. 84-91. Newsweek, April 12,1993, pp. 58-59 Saturday Evening Post, May 1994, pp 40-43