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Norman Rockwell · Life in Weeks
America's most beloved illustrator, his idealized depictions of everyday American life graced 323 covers of The Saturday Evening Post. Later in his career he turned to more socially engaged subjects including civil rights.
Norman Rockwell: 4,422 weeks
Each box represents one week. Lived weeks Key milestones
Key Milestones
Painted his first Saturday Evening Post cover, Boy with Baby Carriage
Painted the Four Freedoms series for The Saturday Evening Post
Painted Rosie the Riveter as a tribute to women workers in WWII industry
Left The Saturday Evening Post to begin a more politically engaged period at Look
Painted The Problem We All Live With, depicting Ruby Bridges entering a desegregated school
Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Gerald Ford
Legacy
Painted Rosie the Riveter, the Four Freedoms series during World War II, and The Problem We All Live With, a civil rights image of Ruby Bridges. The Four Freedoms paintings toured to raise over 130 million dollars in war bonds.
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