Norman Rockwell And "The Post"
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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 Time: 6:56 PM
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His illustrations also depicted day to day life scenarios. He had been trained in the National Academy of Design Art Students League He can be easily called as an American Icon of his times Almost every American household had love for Norman Rockwell and the Saturday Evening post, and it was as if without these two, an American life was not complete It started with just once a week frequency , which means used to be published only once a week Very soon it became a monthly publication, and now instead of once a week it would be published just one time each month This became a premier publication and the numbers ran in millions, as if almost entire America had subscribed to it.
While his father used to read Charles Dickens to him, in his earliest recollections he used to draw Dickens characters Even at the young and careless age of 15 he was very industrious All his friends called him so His first works that got published were thoroughly entertaining and people loved to read them This was the moment of success and he was never to look back I life again.The cover was "Boy with Baby carriage "which was published in 1916 For nest 47 years Norman Rockwell experienced a series of success A publication which was considered to be one of the most prestigious one.
Norman Rockwell, saw his work published in many other major publications, namely Life in 1917, The Country Gentleman in the year 1917 and in the literary digest in the year 1918 The illustrations on the cover were so interesting that almost everyone in America read The Post With The post, now being run by Mr. Lorimer, Norman Rockwell was paid for his work instantly and even more than ever before The returns from The Post were very lucrative The money that he got was actually a bit too much, for an 18 year old artiste His happiness new n bounds as The Post was considered to be the most prestigious of publications at that time. This gave him instant recognition overnight all across America as the circulation of this publication shad increased many folds.
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