Norman rockwell's people

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Before the stars of radio, television,
and motion pictures captured
the American imagination, book and
magazine illustrators were the popular heroes Of their day. Among this celebrated group, Norman Rockwell emerges supreme, remaining America's most beloved artist even years after the passing of the golden age of illustration. Rockwell's art consistently touched theme, that transcend fashion and events and tapped the very wellspring of the American character.
It is a well-known fact that Norman Rockwell drew upon his immediate environment for the subjects of his paintings. The people and events in his life were the people and events in his llustrations. But who are the people who paraded through the artist's canvases over the years? Here, for the first time, the world of Norman Rockwell is presented as he saw it.
Meet the Edgertons of Vermont, whose son Buddy was Rockwell's favorite boy scout. Meet Don Spaulding, a student of Rockwells who also used Buddy Edgerton (as the Lone Ranger) in his comic book illustrations. And met Rockwell's friend the illustrator George Hughes, who also painted Buddy Edgerton for the Saturday
Evening Post These are the people
Rockwell knew and painted and they fomed a unique community of family,
artists, and neighbors.
For those who are unfamiliar with
Rockwells work as well as those devoted buffs who know his illustrations intimately, here is a world of new faces and recollections never before published
A unique feature of this volume is a dinctory of Rockwell's people, in which 243 models used in his illustrations is
entified by a detail of the painting or drawing and is keyed to the page on which the work is reproduced.
Norman Rockwell's People presents a warm and, multifaceted view, showing clearly that the artist's work was an extension of the man. Through the firsthand recollections of Rockwell's models, we see that Rockwell truly believed in what he painted, and that his humanity was genuine. What the public loves in Rockwell's art, his friends and neighbors loved in him.
Susan E. Meyer has written extensively on the subject of illustration and has made many important contributions to the field. Editor Emeritus of American Artist, she is the author of numerous books on art including Abrams' highly successful America's Great Illustrators.

400 illustrations, including 100 plates and 2 foldouts in full color

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