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Norman Rockwell

1894 - 1978

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Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was an American painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of the country's culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over nearly five decades. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Norman Rockwell has received more than 5,030,089 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Norman Rockwell is the 370th most popular painter (down from 276th in 2019), the 1,200th most popular biography from United States (down from 869th in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Painter.

Norman Rockwell is most famous for his paintings of American life, many of which appeared on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Norman Rockwell ranks 370 out of 2,023. Before him are Abraham Bloemaert, Balthus, Jan Gossaert, Maarten van Heemskerck, Anna Ancher, and Paul Sérusier. After him are Willem Claesz. Heda, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Francesco Melzi, Émile Bernard, Leonora Carrington, and Édouard Vuillard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Norman Rockwell ranks 44. Before him are Martha Graham, Alexander Dovzhenko, Josef von Sternberg, Sergey Ilyushin, Paul Blobel, and Elisabeth of Romania. After him are Aino Aalto, Dimitri Tiomkin, Lothar von Richthofen, V. V. Giri, Walter Brennan, and André Kertész. Among people deceased in 1978, Norman Rockwell ranks 37. Before him are Herta Oberheuser, Ed Wood, Claude François, Tamara Karsavina, Jomo Kenyatta, and Étienne Gilson. After him are Musa al-Sadr, Charles Boyer, Giovanni Gronchi, Roger Caillois, W. Eugene Smith, and Guo Moruo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Norman Rockwell ranks 1,200 out of 20,380. Before him are Dwayne Johnson (1972), Little Richard (1932), Butch Cassidy (1866), Marshall Rosenberg (1934), Sam Shepard (1943), and John Denver (1943). After him are Ethan Allen (1738), Robert Englund (1947), Fred Trump (1905), Aileen Wuornos (1956), Ben Stiller (1965), and Lenny Kravitz (1964).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Norman Rockwell ranks 8. Before him are Mary Cassatt (1844), Man Ray (1890), Edward Hopper (1882), Georgia O'Keeffe (1887), Grant Wood (1891), and Richard Serra (1939). After him are Robert Rauschenberg (1925), Frederic Edwin Church (1826), Joseph Kosuth (1945), James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834), Bob Ross (1942), and Lyonel Feininger (1871).

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