Norman Rockwell, the Storyteller with a Brush

Norman Perceval Rockwell, born in New York City 1894, has always been fascinated with art although it was disliked by his mother. His family included his mother, father, brother named Jarvis, and of course himself. Growing up, Rockwell was a pale skinny child with thick glasses. He envied Jarvis and the other boys because of their physical grace and was determined to do something with his scrawny body. After a month of exercising with no results, Rockwell decided to focus on his talent; art.
He started painting in 1912 at just 18-years-old and retired in 1976, two years before he died in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.…