Norman Rockwell was born in New York City in

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. Though urban dwellers, his family spent many summers in the

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.Our heaven, he said, was the ...farm, and had a lot to do with what I later on. His father often Dickens in the evenings and Rockwell would draw pictures of the different

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. He said :after I got to know something about myself, I found that I didn't want to do anything else but

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. Rockwell quit High School to attend the Art Students' League. There, his rigorous training as a fine artist included classes in and illustration technique. He employed models, costumes and

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. Success came early. At 17 Rockwell Art Director for "Boy's Life", the boy Scouts of America Journal. Publishers him for books and magazines. For ambitious illustrators the pinacle of success was the of "the Saturday Evening Post". Paintings of children caught in humorous situations earned Rockwell his first "Post" cover on May 20th,1916. He was years old. That same year he married Irene O'Connor, shown here as his