American illustrator best known for his Saturday Evening Post covers and his Four Freedoms paintings, whose sentimental, technically masterful depictions of American life defined mainstream visual culture for five decades.
Created the definitive visual vocabulary of American middle-class life and values — technical virtuosity in service of narrative warmth — and made magazine illustration a culturally serious art form, though his reputation suffered for decades due to being classified as 'commercial' rather than 'fine' art.
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