FREE: 1972 Norman Rockwell's A Sixty Year Retrospective

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This 12 x 9" book is a wonderful piece of history to have. It has 159 illustrations, including 92 in full-color. It even has a few large pages that fold out of the book. This book is in very good condition with no rips or tears. There are just too many pictures to show, but I listed a few for you to get a sneak peek.
On the inside cover: During the 16 years that Norman Rockwell has illustrated the American scene, he has become a major visual chronicler or of American history and society. He has done this from two perspectives-by recording such major international events as man's first walk on the moon, and also by depicting every day American traditions and activities. The charm and the memorable quality of his art are largely the result of his painstaking care for detail and accuracy, his focus on telling a story, his sense of humor, and his sincere, sympathetic view of all sorts of personalities or situations. With remarkable perception, over the years he has pretrade the American dream, and has become the most popular and best known artist in America.
In 1968, when Benard Dannenberg began exhibiting Norman Rockwell's paintings in his New York gallery, he began an important revival and reevaluation of Rockwell, which has resulted in several books and major traveling exhibition. The author of the text for the catalog, Thomas S Buechner, Who has made an exhaustive study of Rockwells work, gives us a lively and informative you of Rockwell's life, his training, the development of his style, his most prominent themes, and his continued success. Particularly interesting is his description of Rockwells method of working from the first sketches and gathering of props to the finished painting. The catalog includes 159 illustrations, arranged in chronological groupings. Most are in color, and many are enlarged to page or foldout spreads, providing a truly vivid retrospective of Rockwells great achievement.