Rockwell told great, wordless stories of an idealized small-town America in his gentle Saturday Evening Post paintings. Clearly, they were stories that America welcomed: Rockwell was among the most popular artists of the past century. The artist himself was an optimist in his bones: "I just painted what I saw," he would recall. The Runaway, Freedom from Fear, Golden Rule, Christmas Homecoming, and eight more brilliantly rendered epics of nostalgia appear in this calendar.