Google features Norman Rockwell Doodle on his 116th birth anniversary.The American Cartoonist was born on 3 february in 1894. This day is celebrated as an anniversary marked by Google doodle. The Google doodle incorporating Rockwell's First Love, from 1926.
Norman Percevel Rockwell was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States, where Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine.
Among the best-known of Norman Rockwell's paintings works are the Willie Gillis series, Rosie the Riveter, Saying Grace (1951), and the Four Freedoms series. He is also noted for his work for the Boy Scouts of America (BSA); producing covers for their publication Boys' Life, calendars, and other illustrations. President Roosevelt's Four Freedoms speech inspired a set of four Four Freedoms paintings by Norman Rockwell.
See some of his best known Paintings log on to websites:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gallery/2010/feb/03/google-doodle-norman-rockwell
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gallery/2010/feb/03/google-doodle-norman-rockwell?picture=358882965
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gallery/2010/feb/03/google-doodle-norman-rockwell?picture=358882967
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gallery/2010/feb/03/google-doodle-norman-rockwell?picture=358883036
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gallery/2010/feb/03/google-doodle-norman-rockwell?picture=358882963
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gallery/2010/feb/03/google-doodle-norman-rockwell?picture=358882969
The Norman Rockwell Museum is home to the world's largest collection of original Rockwell art.
The Norman Rockell's Museum was founded in 1969, located in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The museum building was designed by architect Robert A. M. Stern. Rockwell spent his last 25 years of his life in this palce. In addition to the 574 original works of art by Rockwell, the museum also houses the Norman Rockwell Archives; a collection of over 100,000 various items, ranging from photographs, fan mail and various business documents. The museum has been at its current location since 1993.
In 2008, the Norman Rockell's Museum received the National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Found Norman Rockell's Museum at:
http://www.nrm.org/
The Free Encyclopedia search for the Norman Rockell is found at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Rockwell
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