Norman Rockwell (New York, February 3, 1894 - Stockbridge, Massachusetts, November 8, 1978) was a painter and illustrator American. He died at age 89, as a result of emphysema.

Rockwell was very popular in the United States, especially because of the 321 covers of The Saturday Evening Post has done for more than four decades, and illustrations of scenes from American life in small towns.

He painted the portraits of Presidents Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, as well as other important world figures such as Gamal Abdel Nasser and Jawaharlal Nehru. One of his last works was the portrait of singer Judy Garland in 1969.

His drawings and paintings are famous for their thoroughness and accuracy of line and color developed capacity because of shyness in adolescence phase due to club feet who had spent as an observer of school friends, enjoying thus draw them because, according to him \\\"Everyone has his talent and my draw is\\\".

The thoroughness of the work in the production of Rockwell is also very famous, he for eternity did all the shares in separate drawings, sketch the idea, clothing and soon after everything together. In 1937 he went to shoot and make your drawings from photographs obtained by making drawings in black and white and then study the possibilities of colors and textures. He liked to give special attention to facial expressions, capturing the expressions of an accurate way and caricatured, especially as it pertains to children\\\'s expressions for the first thirty years of his career.

Norman Rockwell (3 February 1894 to 8 November 1978), was an American artist and illustrator, drew forty years been the headlines for The Saturday Evening Post. Among his better-known themes include:
* Willie Gilles, a common soldier, who led an ordinary life in a battle and never ended.
* Rosie the Riveter, a woman in the U.S. defense industry works.
* Saying Grace, short prayers.
* Four Freedoms, painted front with the four freedoms as were expressed by President Roosevelt: Freedom of expression, religious freedom, \\\'the right to something like’ and\\\" the right to be scared. \\\"

Portrait of Richard Nixon by Norman Rockwell:
And over time you can notice the development of his work at the beginning were children in the most innocent, even when he becomes an adult is always a contrast, as an adult looking to the past or the contrast of childhood, youth with adulthood. All sectors of American life have been portrayed by Rockwell, from social values as their prejudices. In the historic district he portrayed the American War of more gently, but with greater U.S. participation in World War II has been stronger, with soldiers in stern, his work \\\"Four Freedom\\\" became known worldwide.

His works have evolved since the explosion of cinema to the space race; Rockwell does not let anything escape their hands, even the fire in his studio, where he lost many occasions, served as the theme for some sketches that contained a humorous side.

On November 8, 1978 when he died, thousands of people attended, many of them had their faces immortalized for its mastery of drawing and painting.