Norman Rockwell was an American painter born in 1894 who found early success. One of his famous paintings from the 1950s depicts a hobo, or homeless vagrant. The painting shows a man in worn clothes and hat cooking sausages in the street while smoking a pipe, indicating he is homeless. Hobos in the late 19th/early 20th century United States were migratory workers who traveled by train in search of work. Some, like writers Harry Kemp and Jack Kerouac, became famous after living as hobos in their youth.

1. HOBOES

2. Definition of the word HOBO A hobois a migratoryworker or homeless vagabond, oftenpenniless. The termoriginated in the western probablynorthwester United States during the last decade of the 19th century. Unlike tramps, whoworkedonlywhentheywereforced to, and bums, whodidn'tworkat all, hoboswereworkerswhowandered. Theytraveled by train

3. Famous people who were hoboes Harry Kemp Jack Kerouac Harry McClintock

4. Hoboes travelled by train, wrote poems and song. A Hobopoem: « All around the water tank Waitin’ for a train I’m a thousand miles awayfrom home Just a’standin’ in the rain »

5. There are 250 000 hoboes, in the united states 10 percent of them are girls

6. Reasons why teenagers left home

8. Biography He wasborn in New York in 1894 At 14, Rockwell enrolled in art classes at The New York School of Art Rockwell foundsuccessearly. He paintedhis first commission of four Christmas cardsbeforehissixteenthbirthday In the 50s, he was considered as the most popular of artist Americans. He painted his triple auto portrait looking in a mirror He died in 1978

9. Painting of a hobo by Normann Rockwell

10. This painting is the cover of a newspaper. This painting is by Normann Rockwell, an American painter, itrepresents a man. He iswearing an oldhat as well as a long, old and shabbycoat. He’swearing pants withholes and he has a dog. This man is cooking sausages in the streets and he’s smoking the pipe. So wecanconcludethis man is a homeless.