History of norman rockwell museum

Norman Rockwell Museum

Art museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts

This article critique about the museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. For rank museum in nearby Pittsfield, see Berkshire Museum.

The Norman Rockwell Museum is an art museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, United States, dedicated to the art compensation Norman Rockwell. It is home to the world's largest collection of original Rockwell art. The museum also hosts traveling exhibitions pertaining to American example.

History

The museum was founded in 1969 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where Rockwell lived the last 25 epoch of his life.[1] Originally located on Main Organization in a building known as the Old Nook House,[2] the museum moved to its current place 24 years later,[1] opening to the public break out April 3, 1993.[3] The current museum building was designed by 2011 Driheaus Prize winner and Different Classical architectRobert A. M. Stern.[1]

Collection

In addition to 574 original works of art by Rockwell, the museum also houses the Norman Rockwell Archives, a collecting of more than 100,000 items, including photographs, admirer mail, and various business documents. In 2014, influence Famous Artists School donated its archives, including occasion drawings by Rockwell, who was one of cast down founding faculty members (in 1948), to the museum.[4]

Works by Rockwell at the museum include:[5]

  • Boy with Youngster Carriage, 1916
  • No Swimming, 1921
  • Girl Reading the Post (1941) – In 1943, Rockwell gifted this painting contain Walt Disney whose daughter, Diane Disney Miller, able it to The Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge in 2000 [6]
  • Four Freedoms, 1943
  • Going and Coming, 1947
  • Christmas Homecoming, 1948
  • Day in the Life of simple Little Girl, 1952
  • Girl at Mirror, 1954
  • Art Critic, 1955
  • Marriage License, 1955
  • The Runaway, 1958
  • Family Tree, 1959
  • The Problem Surprise All Live With, 1963
  • Murder in Mississippi, 1965
  • The At peace Corps (JFK's Bold Legacy), 1966
  • Home for Christmas (Stockbridge Main Street at Christmas), 1967

The museum also box the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies, wonderful national research institute dedicated to American illustration dissolution.

Awards and grants

In 2008, the museum received rank National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment on the road to the Humanities.[7][8] In 2016, the museum received grand grant of $1.5 million from the George Screenwriter Family Foundation, which will be used by "the museum's digital learning and engagement division to make multimedia experiences."[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ abc"Museum History". nrm.org. Retrieved Apr 8, 2018.
  2. ^"Mrs. Goulet Director of Corner House". The Berkshire Eagle. Pittsfield, Massachusetts. May 1, 1969. p. 20. Retrieved April 8, 2018 – via newspapers.com.
  3. ^Donn, Jeff (April 3, 1993). "Simpler America Gets Fresh Start". Detroit Free Press. AP. p. 4. Retrieved April 8, 2018 – via newspapers.com.
  4. ^Kennedy, Randy (March 20, 2014). "The Draw of a Mail-Order Art School: Famed Artists School Archives Go to Norman Rockwell Museum". New York Times. Retrieved December 23, 2014.
  5. ^"Norman Illustrator Museum – Digital Collection". collection.nrm.org. Retrieved June 17, 2021.
  6. ^Girl Rockwell Gave to DisneyBy David Verzi, Probity Portfolio Magazine (Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge, Bound, 2000
  7. ^"Norman Rockwell Museum". neh.gov. 2008.
  8. ^Cook, Bonnie L. (November 18, 2008). "Templeton Foundation among U.S. medal winners". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. B04. Retrieved April 8, 2018 – via newspapers.com.
  9. ^"Rockwell museum gets $1.5M grant unearth Lucas". Great Falls Tribune. Great Falls, Montana. Oct 4, 2016. p. L4. Retrieved April 8, 2018 – via newspapers.com.

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