THE PAINTING "SAYING GRACE"

The Painting "Saying Grace"

The Painting "Saying Grace"

Thesis statement

The painting “saying grace” Oil Painting Reproductions Art Replica Authentic 100% Hand-Painted Oil on Canvas.

Introduction about Norman Percevel Rockwell

Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 - November 8, 1978) was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a very wide well popular appeal in the United States, where Rockwell is most well known for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he conceived for The Saturday Evening mail publication over more than four decades. Among the best-known of Rockwell's works are the Willie Gillis sequence, Rosie the Riveter (although his Rosie was duplicated less than other ones of the day), Saying Grace (1951), and the Four Freedoms series. He is also documented for his work for the Boy Scouts of America (BSA); producing wrappings for their publication Boys' Life, calendars, and other illustrations. (Laura, 2001)

In 1953, the Rockwell family moved to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, so that his wife could be treated at the Austen Riggs Center, a psychiatric clinic at 25 Main Street, down major Street from where Rockwell set up his studio. Rockwell himself obtained psychiatric treatment from the renowned analyst Erik Erikson, who was on employees at Riggs. Erikson is said to have told the artist that he painted his joyfulness, but did not reside it. In 1959, Mary Barstow Rockwell died suddenly of a heart attack. Rockwell and his wife were not very devout, whereas they were members of St. John's Wilmot Church, an Episcopal place of worship near their home, and had their sons baptized there as well. Rockwell moved to Arlington, Vermont, in 1939 where his work began to contemplate small-town life. In 1961, Rockwell wed Molly Punderson, a retired teacher. (Laura, 2001)

Summary

Saying Grace, a Norman Rockwell painting, emerged on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post released November 24, 1951. This is another timeless very popular of Rockwell collectors, a classic for the ages. This painting was Rockwell's seventh cover for The mail in 1951. In 1951, there were eight Norman Rockwell Saturday Evening Post wrappings published. This was furthermore Rockwell's 269th cover illustration out of 322 Rockwell painted for the Post. Rockwell's career with the Post spanned 47 years, from his first cover illustration, young man With Baby Carriage in 1916 to his last, Portrait of John F. Kennedy, in 1963. The original oil on canvas painting, 42 x 40 ...