The View of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the … - Norman Rockwell

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The View of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and the ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be. (Somebody once said that I paint the kind of girls your mother would want you to marry.)

Norman Rockwell

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Norman Percevel Rockwell (3 February 1894 – 8 November 1978) 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 he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over nearly five decades.

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Alternative Names: Norman Perceval Rockwell • Norman Percevel Rockwell • Rockwell

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