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Norman Rockwell

Norman Percevel Rockwell was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine for more than four decades...

Timeline of Events

1916

5.20.1916

The ''Saturday Evening Post'' publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting (''Boy with Baby Carriage'').

1941

10.4.1941

Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of the ''Saturday Evening Post''.

1943

2.20.1943

''The Saturday Evening Post'' publishes the first of Norman Rockwell's ''Four Freedoms'' in support of United States President Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union address theme of Four Freedoms.