Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell is known for his idealistic portrayal of the 1900s through his artwork. You might have seen some of his calendars full of months of happy "candy counter" scenes. In Rockwell's "The Runaway", he overlooks the emerging counter-culture centered around responding to America's problems at that time, by portraying America as a nation with a calm and benevolent social and economic climate, which it was not.