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Norman Rockwell

April 2020

  • The Problem We All Live With by Norman Rockwell, 1964, an iconic image of the US civil rights movement.

    From the Guardian archive
    Norman Rockwell, the most American of all artists – archive, 1972

    3 April 1972: Once scorned by the art world, Rockwell is being acclaimed not only as a man who held a mirror to American social history but as one of the country’s greatest genre painters

May 2018

  • Freedom of Worship, The Problem We All Live With, and Freedom of Speech as seen on display at the New York Historical Society.

    Four Freedoms at 75: Norman Rockwell's paintings come to life again

    A new touring exhibit celebrates the ‘lofty’ ideals of Rockwell’s work at a time when America is in need of harmony

February 2017

  • Jonathan Jones

    Jonathan Jones on art
    Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms remind us what the US has to lose

    Jonathan Jones
    News that the painter’s quartet of works celebrating an apple-pie America is to go on tour emphasises what is under threat in the Trump era

November 2016

  • Jonathan Jones

    Jonathan Jones on art
    Norman Rockwell's Statue of Liberty can point Trump towards decency

    Jonathan Jones
    Rockwell’s painting was positioned behind Donald Trump’s head as he met Obama in the White House. But this isn’t trolling – it’s a reminder to Trump that America is the land of the free

April 2015

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    Mary Doyle Keefe, model for Norman Rockwell's Rosie the Riveter, dies at 92

    Keefe, who posed for the iconic painting that represents American working women in the second world war, passed on Tuesday in Connecticut

February 2015

  • Cahill

    Greenslade
    Painting that shows how people used to learn the news

    The days when newspapers were read to family groups

December 2013

  • Sotheby's shows the popular Norman Rockwell masterpiece "Saying Grace," which is heading for the auction block

    Norman Rockwell painting bought for record $46m price at Sotheby's auction

  • Sotheby's shows the popular Norman Rockwell masterpiece "Saying Grace," which is heading for the auction block

    Norman Rockwell masterpieces to be sold at Sotheby's auction in New York

October 2013

  • A painting by Norman Rockwell titled The Problem We All Live With. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas are combining their collections of Rockwell's work for an exhibit in Washington. Photograph: EPA

    The true value of Norman Rockwell, America's patriot painter

    Nicolaus Mills

    Nicolaus Mills: Rockwell is often called 'folksy', yet his art, which now fetches millions, was deeply engaged with the great issues of his day

January 2011

  • Peter Preston

    The norms of Norman Rockwell

    Peter Preston

    Peter Preston: The artist Norman Rockwell gave pre-war Americans what they wanted: cheerful escapism. But times have changed

  • Breakfast Table Political Argument by Norman Rockwell

    Norman Rockwell's America

    Through his Saturday Evening Post covers, Norman Rockwell idealised America and America idolised him in return, but this stunning survey at the Dulwich Picture Gallery reveals the deep knowledge of art central to his work

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    Norman Rockwell's America – review

    Norman Rockwell idealised America and America idolised him in return – but this stunning survey reveals a deep knowledge of art at the heart of his work, writes Laura Cumming

December 2010

  • norman rockwell's san ta

    Jonathan Jones on art
    Norman Rockwell's America - review

    Exhibition of Saturday Evening Post covers shows how brief America's golden age really was, writes Jonathan Jones

February 2010

  • Trail Rockwell: Google doodle

    Norman Rockwell, Saturday Evening Post stalwart, celebrated with Google doodle

    The American cartoonist and illustrator, whose works featured on 321 Saturday Evening Post covers over 40 years, was born on this day in 1894 - an anniversary marked by a Google doodle. See some of his best known works here

October 2009

  • A painting by Norman Rockwell titled The Problem We All Live With. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas are combining their collections of Rockwell's work for an exhibit in Washington. Photograph: EPA

    Spielberg and Lucas to combine Rockwell collections for US exhibit

    More than 50 works by Norman Rockwell will be on display at a Smithsonian museum in Washington

April 2006

  • Revealed at last: the $5m Rockwell painting hidden for 35 years

    Breaking Home Ties, which hangs at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, is one of the American artist's best-known and most popular works, worth an estimated $5m on the art market. Or it would be, if Rockwell had actually painted it.

February 2002

  • The Simpsons' debt to Norman Rockwell

  • Home of the brave

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