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** Even his civil rights paintings were optimistic that America was doing the right thing desegregating schools and neighborhoods.
* [[Something Completely Different]]: Rockwell did several [[April Fools' Day]] covers for the ''Post'' which were essentially visual puzzles inviting the reader to spot the many "errors" contained therein.
** A number of his later ''Post'' covers were simple portraits of well-known figures including [[Richard M Nixon]] and [[John F. Kennedy]].
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: Alex Ross is cited as "The Norman Rockwell of Comics". Illustrator C.F. Payne's back cover paintings for ''Reader's Digest'' have also been frequently compared to Rockwell's work.
** Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light[[Tradesnark|(tm)]] wants to be Norman Rockwell so very badly ("painting for the people"), but thinks that means painting landscapes with buildings so brightly lit that "[http://voidmanufacturing.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/the-madness-of-thomas-kincade/ seem consumed from within by raging infernos.]"
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