Norman rockwell paintings

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April Fool (Girl with Shopkeeper, Curiosity Shop), 1948 by Norman Rockwell - Buy April Fool (Girl with Shopkeeper, Curiosity Shop), 1948 Paper Art Print - Norman Rockwell Museum - Custom Prints and Framing

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Marble Champion, The Saturday Evening Post, September 2, 1939, oil on canvas, 28 x 22 in. americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/tellingstories/

The Gossips is the culmination of Rockwell’s fascination with the subject of gossip - while he had painted works exploring this theme in the past, it was not until his immersion in the Arlington community that the final composition came to fruition. In the present work, Rockwell depicts 15 figures, each portrayed twice, as part of a chain receiving and passing on a tidbit of gossip. The attention he pays to naturalistic detail in these expressive portraits is exceptional, and the artist…

A traveling exhibition of Norman Rockwell paintings will open March 9 at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville. Includes slideshow of seven paintings in the exhibit.

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For this work, Rockwell posed the young model at the top of the stairs in his own home and assembled a group of friends and neighbours downstairs. Once he was satisfied with the photos, Rockwell would return to his studio and combine his preliminary sketches with the photos to create a series of small-scale colour studies. These preliminary sketches allowed Rockwell to experiment with colour and provide a glimpse into the artist’s creative process. After executing several colour studies for…

David Apatoff takes a closer look at the details that make Norman Rockwell a true artist. He starts with Rockwell’s use of hands.