Norman Percevel Rockwell was an American painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of the country's culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over nearly five decades. Among the best-known of Rockwell's works are the Willie Gillis series, Rosie the Riveter,
The Problem We All Live With, Saying Grace, and the Four Freedoms series. He is also noted for his 64-year relationship with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), during which he produced covers for their publication Boys' Life, calendars, and other illustrations. These works include popular images that reflect the Scout Oath and Scout Law such as The Scoutmaster, A Scout Is Reverent, and A Guiding Hand.
Rockwell in c. 1921
Rockwell's first Scouting calendar, 1925
Saturday Evening Post cover (September 27, 1924)
Cousin Reginald Spells Peloponnesus. Norman Rockwell, 1918.
The Saturday Evening Post
The Saturday Evening Post is an American magazine, currently published six times a year. It was published weekly from 1897 until 1963, and then every other week until 1969. From the 1920s to the 1960s, it was one of the most widely circulated and influential magazines among the American middle class, with fiction, non-fiction, cartoons and features that reached two million homes every week.
The November 28, 1903 cover featuring Otto von Bismarck, illustrated by George Fort Gibbs
Cover of the January 19, 1924, issue
December 28, 1907. Cover by J. C. Leyendecker
April 16, 1910. Cover by Anton Otto Fischer