"As close to a perfect art book as possible... Rockwell's art was created to be reproduced; designed by the artist to be printed, not hung ... reproductions are flawless. As a book it is beautiful, and as a collection of an artist's (yes, artist's) work it is complete and well documented. The book contains 614 of Rockwell's illustrations, spanning his whole career, and the full-color plates are a credit to him, his publisher, and the printer. —Harper's Magazine "The text by Buechner is especially interesting, not merely in the details of Rockwell's life, but in the sharp description of the fastidiousness with which he work[ed], his genius for detail, his insistence on sacrificing every thing to the requirements for reproduction. He is in the high tradition of the Renaissance, an artist of infinite capacity, ready to prove himself worthy of his hire. Above him, or beside him, in that role, no one stands today. "The future's evaluation will put him higher than our contemporary critics.. a book worthy of the artist." —The Boston Sunday Globe "Long after legions of the pretentiously inviolate talents cherished by today's pretentiously involute tastes are forgotten, because they didn't have anything to say, Norman Rockwell will be remembered, because he did. The book underscores this, and that's the highest compliment one can pay it." —Cleveland Press "Altogether, it is a splendid book, superbly designed and printed, and well rounded out with documentary material and the author's perceptive survey of the artist's life and work." —American Artist "One of the handsomest artbooks. ... I can think of no more suitable gift or one more likely to evoke a beaming smile." —New York Post on

ISBN: 9780810981508