Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) was a contemporary American painter famous for his covers of The Saturday Evening Post.

References[]

• Several of Rockwell's famous works have been parodied by both the Sesame Street and Muppets characters over the decades.

"Freedom From Want"
Saturday Evening Post (1981)

"Gay Blades"
Sesame Street Magazine Dec 1983

"Triple Self-Portrait"
Museum of Monster Art

"Triple Self-Portrait"
Sesame Street Magazine June 1981 by Joe Mathieu

"Triple Self-Portrait"
updated version
by Joe Mathieu

"Triple Self-Portrait"
The Electric Company DVD v1
art by Louis Henry Mitchell dated 1999

"Freedom From Want"
Sesame Street Facebook post (2017)

"Freedom From Want"
Jim Henson Presents #1 cover B by Derek Kirk Kim (2025)

"Freedom From Want"
Sesame Street: A 1990 Calendar

• Rockwell's name is invoked on a plaque below a time clock in the Muppet conference room during the Scrabble scene in The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence.

External links[]

• Official Site