Partners
Partners’ Exhibitions
This listing includes exhibits at Rockwell Center’s partner institutions and exhibits partner institutions are traveling around the country.
The Art of Eric Carle: The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse
The Eric Carl Museum of Picture Book Art
September 10, 2011 – March 20, 2012
Come see the original art from Eric Carle’s new book: The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse. Executed in his signature colorfully-designed collage technique, the book encourages the young [...]
Illustration Partners
Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, PA
Cabinet of American Illustration, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Center for Historic American Visual Culture, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Eric Carle Museum, Amherst, MA
Farnsworth Museum, Rockport, ME
Hallmark Cards, Kansas City, MO
Illustration House, New York, NY
Kelly Collection of American Illustration, Great Falls, VA
National Museum of American Illustration in Newport, R.I.
National Scouting Museum in Irving, Texas
Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln, NE
New Britain Museum of [...]
Collections and Partners
The Rockwell Center is a network of prominent museums, distinguished collections, institutional partners, and scholarly resources, whose common interest is American illustration art and visual studies.
American Illustration Collections and Network Partners:
Please note: This is a partial list.
Brandywine River MuseumChadds Ford, PennsylvaniaAmerican illustration is a major component of the museum’s collection. The collection includes illustrations by many of the 19th and 20th century American illustrators Howard Pyle, Rockwell Kent, Edward Gorey, Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss), [...]
Traveling Exhibits available from the Society of Illustrators
ORIGINAL ART
A Traveling Exhibit celebrating the fine art of Children’s Book Illustration
The Original Art show celebrates its thirtieth year as a showcase for children’s book illustrators whose work is seldom seen outside the studio or publisher’s office.
This exhibit consists of forty colorful works of art. All forty works were featured in the juried Original Art 2010 exhibition held at the Museum of American Illustration at Society of Illustrators in New York [...]
Washington University launches Modern Graphic History Library
Washington University’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and the University Libraries’ Department of Special Collections will launch the new Modern Graphic History Library with a pair of exhibitions Friday, Nov. 16. (this article ran Nov. 8, 2007 and is repeated here for your information)
Al Parker, Mother and Daughter Skiing, 1942. Gouache on board. Collection of Kit and Donna Parker. From the exhibition Ephemeral Beauty: Al Parker and the American Women’s Magazine, [...]