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Norman Rockwell (1894)close

Norman Rockwell, born in New York City, New York, may be one of America's best-known modern illustrators. He drew countless covers for the magazine Saturday Evening Post and his poster series "The Four Freedoms" was widely reproduced during the second World War.

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