Robert Hughes, art critic, 1978 Norman Rockwell was homelier than apple pie, more American than the flag, gentler and more affirmative than Dad, and that was what the American public in the early ...

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Even Norman Rockwell ... don't-know-anything-about-art-but-I-know-what-I-like American. But was he a "real' artist? Art-world types argue about it to this day. Even Rockwell (especially Rockwell ...

But in “American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell,” art critic and biographer Deborah Solomon looks at him in both lights. She gives him high grades — which might have drawn jeers ...

A week ago on this program, we spoke to art critic Deborah Solomon about her new biography of iconic artist, Norman Rockwell, American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell. The book is a ...

The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell,” as “the first hip young art critic” to have had a kind word for the great artist-illustrator. At the start of her book, Solomon summarizes the snarling ...

But what did happen to Norman Rockwell’s influence as an illustrator of American life? Rockwell’s narrative art of national pride ... it intended to be; or, as critic and “realist” painter ...

including New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl, who praised his artistry. I never gave much thought to Norman Rockwell until a few years ago when the Orlando Museum of Art had a large exhibition ...

American painter Norman Rockwell, who died in 1978 ... His is an art of unending cliché,” as Washington Post art critic Blake Gopnik put it in 2010 during an exhibition of American artists ...

That’s right, folks. The art critic Deborah Solomon appeared on The Colbert Report earlier this week to talk about her great Norman Rockwell biography, American Mirror. One highlight ...

The Boy Scouts of America’s 321-piece art collection, including Norman Rockwell paintings, is heading to the auction block to raise funds for the compensation of sex-abuse survivors as part of a ...