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Do you want to get language learning tips and resources every week or two? Join our mailing list to receive new ways to improve your language learning in your inbox! Norman Rockwell was a famous American painter and illustrator. Many people consider him as the greatest American artist of all time. His works often illustrated ordinary and yet humorous scenes of daily life.

When he was a child, Norman sang in the church choir and spent his summers with his family at farms in the country. Country life is a recurrent theme in Norman's paintings. Rockwell enjoyed drawing at an early age and he decided very soon that he wanted to be an artist. So, at the age of 14, he attended classes at the New York School of Art.

He left high school when he was 16 to study art at the National Academy of Design and then at the Art Students League. While he was still a teenager, Norman became the art director of "Boys' Life", the Boy Scouts of America's publication. Rockwell, his two brothers, and his parents moved to New Rochelle, New York, when Norman was 21 years old.

There, Norman opened a studio and did artwork for several magazines. When he was 22, he painted his first cover for "The Saturday Evening Post". Norman considered this magazine as "the greatest show window in America. That same year, Norman Rockwell married Mary Barstow, a school teacher.