Norman Rockwell is best known for his illustrations of magazine covers. Norman was born in New Yrok City in 1894. When he was fourteen, Rockwell enrolled in art classes at the New York School of Art. In 1910, while 16, he left high school to study art at the National Academy of Design. He soon transferred to the Art Students League, where he studied with Thomas Fogarty and George Bridgman. Fogarty’s knowledge helped prepare Rockwell for his …showed first 75 words of 741 total…

…showed last 75 words of 741 total…with an ability to represent detail realistically. The subjects of most of his illustrations are taken from everyday family and small-town life and are often treated with a touch of humor. Though love by the public, Rockwell’s work was dismissed by most critics as lacking artistic merit and authentic social obsevation. In 1977, Norman Rockwell was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is the nation’s highest peacetime award, by President Gerald R. Ford.