Lincoln by Norman Rockwell – An Illustrated Story in Six Paintings
“ If you want to exalt a subject, you shoot up at him ,” Norman Rockwell once remarked. Shown here with his 1964 painting “ Young Woodcutter .” Norman Rockwell was one of the Twentieth Century’s most popular illustrators of American culture and history. Many of us remember his illustrations because we grew up during his heyday. Our grandparents and parents used to laugh at some of them and sometimes share a story from their past that a Rockwell illustration brought to mind. Even as young people, we, too, enjoyed some of his illustrations because they recalled for us a key moment or just an everyday moment in our lives. And now, all these years later, even our children and grandchildren enjoy or identify with different Rockwell illustrations. They don’t know the man, but they enjoy his art. He tapped something in all of us…and he still does. Norman Rockwell-Storyteller Rockwell (1894-1978) produced more than 4,000 original works in his career. Memorable illustrations like “ The Prob
