“Blank Canvas” by Norman Rockwell on the cover of “The Saturday Evening Post,” October 8, 1938.
“Meeting deadlines and thinking up ideas are the scourges of an illustrator’s life. This is not a caricature of myself, I really look like that.” – Norman Rockwell
In addition to deadlines, Rockwell faced restrictions on subject matter as well. He wrote that for years the Post would not allow him to show a cigarette. Later they allowed him to show a man smoking, but not a woman. Also, he described how he once painted a man holding a glass of beer, and the Post changed it to a glass of milk. [Source: Norman Rockwell Museum]
Not his most famous self-portrait, but one of his earliest.
“Blank Canvas” by Norman Rockwell on the cover of “The Saturday Evening Post,” October 8, 1938.
“Meeting deadlines and thinking up ideas are the scourges of an illustrator’s life. This is not a caricature of myself, I really look like that.” – Norman Rockwell
In addition to deadlines, Rockwell faced restrictions on subject matter as well. He wrote that for years the Post would not allow him to show a cigarette. Later they allowed him to show a man smoking, but not a woman. Also, he described how he once painted a man holding a glass of beer, and the Post changed it to a glass of milk. [Source: Norman Rockwell Museum]
Not his most famous self-portrait, but one of his earliest.