Achievements
• Rockwell created an astonishing 321 covers for “The Saturday Evening Post”
• He raised $139.9 million for the World War I war effort through an exhibition of his legendary, patriotic series “The Four Freedoms.”
• Illustrated 50 Boy Scouts of America calendars (1925 – 1976).
• Rockwell’s stamp of Boy Scout Thorton Percival is one of the most popular U.S. stamps of all time, with a printing of over 139 million.
• In 1979 Liberia issued a limited-edition postage stamp set of 50 of Rockwell’s Boy Scout calendar paintings.
• Rockwell designed the 4-cent Boy Scouts of America 50th Anniversary stamp, issued February 8, 1960.
• Rockwell also designed the 5-cent City Mail Delivery commemorative stamp, issued
October 26, 1963, to mark the 100th anniversary of free city mail delivery.
• In 1994 a commemorative 29-cent stamp was issued in his honor, featuring
his famous “Triple Self-Portrait” painting.
• A.F.D.
from University of Vermont, 1949
• A.F.D. from University of Massachusetts, 1961
• Doctor of Humanities from Middlebury College, 1954
• Presidential Freedom Medal, 1977
• Interfaith Award of the National Conference of Christians and
Jews, 1961, for his Post cover of the "Golden Rule".
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