Norman Rockwell And The Saturday Evening Post books
    The Early Years
    The Middle Years
    The Later Years
                                             (1976 - The Four S Corp.)

(compiled by Dr. Donald R. & Marshall Stolz and Starkey Flythe Jr.) In each of these volumes you'll find one-third of the SATURDAY EVENING POST magazine covers that featured the paintings of Norman Rockwell. They are reproductions of the magazine covers themselves, complete with the title and other typography that appeared on them. By our lights, these three books are the preferable way to handle the presentation of all this artwork that makes up the heart of Rockwell's canon, rather than gathering them all into one huge unwieldy tome. Each reproduced magazine cover is faced with a page that provides a healthy commentary about the piece. Vol.1 covers the period from 1916 to 1928 and has 108 of the pieces, bridging the magazine's transition from duo-tone to full-color covers. Vol.2 has 107 pieces covering 1928-1943. Vol.3 covers 1943-1971 with 107 pieces. Getting all three volumes means that of the 322 paintings, 149 of them have already appeared in Montgomery's NORMAN ROCKWELL, THE BEST OF NORMAN ROCKWELL, 102 FAVORITE PAINTINGS, PICTURES FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, Marling's Taschen NORMAN ROCKWELL or 60-YEAR RETROSPECTIVE, all of which scored as better gatherings of the man's art, but that does leave 163 'well-presented' images (over half) that you haven't seen before now. Make a special note to not confuse a different similarly entitled single book, called THE SATURDAY EVENING POST NORMAN ROCKWELL BOOK, with these. Anyway, it was really nice finding such a number of new Rockwell 'friends' here, though by now, I doubt that any of them will ever achieve a prominence greater than 'minor jewel'.