Norman Rockwell Hand Signed Publisher Proof Lithograph:"Ye Olde Pipe"
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Norman Rockwell Hand Signed Publisher Proof Lithograph:"Ye Olde Pipe"

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Artist: Norman Rockwell
Title: Ye Olde Pipe
Size: " x "
Edition : Publisher Proof
Medium: Lithograph
Year: 1975
Artist Biography: Norman Rockwell was born in New York City in 1894, and moved to suburban Mamaroneck with his family when he was nine. He left high school to study at the National Academy of Design's art school, earning his keep by designing cards and teaching actress Ethel Barrymore to paint. At 16, he transferred to the Art Students League to learn, as he put it, "to paint storytelling pictures." At 17, he was already illustrating books, and at 18, he was art director for the magazine Boys Life. To learn more about his craft, he shared a studio for a time with Clyde Forsyth, an established illustrator. Rockwell was only 22 when he sold his first five covers to George Horace Lorimer, the legendary editor of The Saturday Evening Post. Thereafter, he averaged about 10 covers a year for the magazine. For his covers, Rockwell would make a small sketch of his scene, then make individual drawings of each element that was to make up the painting. Next he would make a full-size charcoal drawing of the entire scene, and finally, before actually starting the painting, color sketches. In later life he also worked from photographs, sometimes projecting them onto the canvas and sketching in the outlines in charcoal. During World War I, he served in the navy, but spent his time painting official portraits. In the early 1950s, he did patriotic murals on the Four Freedoms for the Nassau Tavern in Princeton, New Jersey. The oil sketch for one of these murals, Freedom of Speech (1952), is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. From 1960 until his death in 1978, Rockwell spent much of his time doing large painted photomontages of contemporary personages and events.
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