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Norman Rockwell
PainterKnown for:
cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post; the "Four Freedoms" (1943)
Education:
Art Students League of New York (under Thomas Fogarty and George Bridgman)
Norman Rockwell spent 47 years as the cover illustrator for The Saturday Evening Post, producing 323 covers that constituted the most widely reproduced images of American domestic life in the twentieth century. His "Four Freedoms" paintings (1943), commissioned by the government and reproduced in the Post and on posters for the war bond campaign, raised $132 million. His later work for Look magazine addressed civil rights and social division with a directness absent from his earlier idealized imagery.
Norman Rockwell's Gear List(1)
Winsor & Newton
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Rockwell used Winsor & Newton oil paints for his Saturday Evening Post covers and later paintings. His materials and technique are documented in "Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue" (1986) and in the Norman Rockwell Museum archives.
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Winsor & Newton has manufactured artists' oil colours in London since 1832, and its professional-grade line remains one of the most widely used in studio painting worldwide. The range covers more than 120 pigments, each ground in cold-pressed linseed or safflower oil to a standard of consistency that has changed little since the nineteenth century. Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon were among the many painters who worked from the Winsor & Newton range throughout their careers.
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Last updated March 20, 2026
