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Rockwell's studio was temporarily transformed into an abstract expressionist's workplace as he painted The Connoisseur, a painting about the relationship between conventional

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"I like to paint kids... people think of their own youth," Rockwell once said and he had first hand experience as reference for this work. "I ran away from home when I was a kid in Mamaroneck and mooned around the shore; kicking stones and watching the whitecaps on Long Island Sound. Pretty soon it began to get dark and a cold wind sprang up and moaned in the trees. So I went home."

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Humor and humility were essential aspects of Norman Rockwell's character, so when asked to do a self-portrait that would announce the first of eight excerpts of his autobiography, the results were lighthearted and somewhat self-deprecating.

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Everyone in the picture is smiling the same small smile, and we, as beholders at once inside and outside this cozy scene, are invited to smile as well

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Norman Rockwell once said he envied students who swooned when viewing the Mona Lisa because he never felt such passion. Rockwell may have seen himself as a more analytical artist With typical humor, Rockwell replaces the homely woman with one more alluring.

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an old circus clown named Pokey Joe who is coaxed by his friends into a checkers game to lift his spirits and renew his self confidence.

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was the last of Rockwell's Christmas covers for The Saturday Evening Post. It also signaled the end of Rockwell's portraying life as he thought readers wanted to see it

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Girl at Mirror follows a long tradition by fine artists of picturing a woman contemplating her reflection.