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American As Apple Pie
Title: American As Apple Pie
Category: Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 1509 | Pages: 6.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
American As Apple Pie
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 1509 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1509 total…his fifty-sixth Boys Scout 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
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