NORMAN ROCKWELL (b.1894) was an American painter and illustrator most famous for doing the cover illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post magazine in the 1920s-1960s. His work depicted scenarios of everyday life, often with slight exaggeration and humor. His work was so accessible and widespread (through its distribution method) that his images became a part of the everyday lives of Americans of that era. Though his images are fixed moments in time, they are rich with a sense of chronology. While looking at one of his scenes a viewer can piece together, through a series of clues, the other dimensions, dynamics and layers of the narrative. In that way his work becomes a time-capsule as well as a cross-section of a moment.
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