Summer 1995 Building an Art Collection, by Laurie Norton Moffatt
One of the most exciting moments for a museum director is adding more art to the collection! Museums celebrate the arrival of new paintings, objects, and photographs. They relate the story of our lives, and who better to tell the story of 20th-century America than Norman Rockwell? Norman Rockwell was the museum’s first art donor.
Curator’s Corner, by Maureen Hart Hennesey
The Norman Rockwell Museum is pleased to announce its newest acquisition, a color study for the March 17, 1945 Saturday Evening Post cover, Income Tax. The oil on photograph on board depicts a harried taxpayer, seen from behind, as he attempts to make the March 15, 1945 income tax deadline. The study is markedly different from the fmal Post cover.A Centennial Celebration-On The Twentieth Century, by Maureen Hart Hennessey,
Norman Rockwell is perhaps best known for his images of friendly small towns and family scenes. At the same time, Rockwell, as the premier illustrator of his age, was also in a unique position to cover me significant events in twentieth-century America and the people who helped shape the nation and the world.