We love Norman Rockwell but are well accustomed to the condescension with which his work is regarded in the art world where being called an illustrator is a put-down.
American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell is an impeccably researched and highly readable biography of a man that many Americans feel they already know.
“If I had any flair and ability as an artist, it lay with interpreting people, whether the cowboy or the pretty girl. I called it “cowboys and cleavage.” —Everett Raymond Kinstler