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SYMPOSIUM: Illustration Across Media: Nineteenth Century to Now
The Society of Fellows at the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies announces a seminal conference:
LOCATION: Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri,
DATE: March 21-23, 2019
CONVENED BY: The Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies at the Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and the D. B. Dowd Modern Graphic History Library at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
Norman Rockwell has a New York City street in his name
Read the following New York Times article by James Barron to learn how high school students were inspired to have a New York City street renamed to honor Norman Rockwell. Manhattan Street is Renamed After
2011 Rockwell Center Scholar, Michael Lobel Awarded the 28th Annual Eldredge Prize for His Book John Sloan: Drawing on Illustration
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has awarded the Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art to Michael Lobel for his book John Sloan: Drawing on Illustration (Yale University Press, 2014). The jurors
ILLUSTRATOR JERRY PINKNEY RECEIVES TWO LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
Cover illustration for The Little Match Girl Norman Rockwell Museum is pleased to congratulate beloved picture book illustrator Jerry Pinkney on his historic receipt of two lifetime achievement awards in a single day—as
Remembering Joyce K. Schiller
Photo of Joyce K. Schiller, inaugural curator of the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies, Norman Rockwell Museum. Norman Rockwell Museum is sad to learn and report of the passing of Joyce. K.
Museum Debuts New Online Illustration History Resource
Illustration History website On August 15, Norman Rockwell Museum will debut a new, comprehensive, online resource dedicated to the art of illustration. Join us at the Museum this Saturday, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. as we
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Hope you enjoyed the holiday weekend! In Easter Morning, a May 16,1959 Post cover, Rockwell invites every viewer who has ever resisted morning services to enjoy this father's daring indulgence. Here, he lounges un-showered and undressed, with coffee, cigarettes, and the sports section of the Sunday paper, while his family marches off to church. His uncombed hair is decidedly devilish, and in Populuxe, Thomas Hine's 1986 book about the modernity of 1950s American culture, the author notes that Rockwell’s placement of the character in a 1948 Eero Saarinen “womb” chair “very quietly embodied the father’s break with tradition.” The mother in this painting is modeled by Rockwell's own daughter-in-law, Gail.
"Opening Saturday, April 27 -“For the People: Memories of the Old Corner House,” the first of several exhibits celebrating the Museum's 50th Anniversary.
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Starting at the Old Corner House in Stockbridge in 1969, the Norman Rockwell Museum has become the center for all things Rockwell and American...Published on this day for the April 21 1934 cover of The Saturday Evening Post, Norman Rockwell’s Spirit of Education shows a less than enthusiastic student being dressed as a Greek scholar complete with toga, laurel crown, and torch to symbolize enlightenment.
The Museum is open today, Easter Sunday and the last day of school vacation, so come find the original oil painting in our galleries, and order custom framed prints (20% OFF!) from our online store here: prints.nrm.org/search/subject/teaching/
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Happy Easter, Passover & Spring! From all of us at Norman Rockwell Museum. We are open this holiday weekend from 10 am to 5 pm, on Saturday and Sunday.
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Next Saturday, April 27, is Berkshire County Community Day, free with ID. Stop by! Sponsored by Berkshire Bank
Berkshire County Community Day - Norman Rockwell Museum - The Home for American Illustration
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COMMUNITY DAYS Berkshire County Community Day Saturday, April 27, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Sponsored by Berkshire Bank Enjoy Shuffleton’s Barbershop and...