Stories of the Asian, African, and Native Americans who modeled for Norman Rockwell.

Based on the Rockwell collections owned by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, "Telling Stories" is the first book to chart the connections between Rockwell's iconic images of American life and the movies.

"The long-awaited biography of the defining illustrator of the twentieth century by a celebrated art critic"--

Few artists have captured the essence of the American middle class with the warmth, gentle humor, and charm of illustrator Norman Rockwell (18941978). Remembered for the several generations of Saturday Evening Post covers he illustrated, Rockwell had a genius for creating stop-action scenesan art student racing to her next class, a small dog stubbornly blocking trafficmoments with which viewers could easily identify. This book of postcards offers thirty of Rockwells most treasured illustrations.