Summer 1997 Family Ties: Rockwell’s Art for Family, Friends and Fun, by Maureen Hart Hennessey
During a career that spanned seven decades, Norman Rockwell was extremely prolific, creating over 2,600 published illustrations and the many color and charcoal studies used to develop these final images. Relatively few Rockwell works were noncommissioned; even portraits of his family members and friends were sometimes done as illustrations for publication.
Silent Wonder: The Paintings of Wendell Minor, by Stephanie Plunkett and JoAnn Losinger
A gifted American painter, illustrator and graphic designer, Wendell Minor is known as a traditionalist and a romantic.Curator’s Corner: Bill Scovill’s Bequest, by Maureen Hart Hennessey
Norman Rockwell’s working methods often have been the focus of this column, especially when a new study enters the museum’s collection. From the earliest conceptual sketch and photographs of carefully selected models and settings, through the detailed charcoal drawing and loosely painted color study, to the final oil painting and the printed illustration, every piece represents an important part of the overall process that Rockwell developed to create his illustrations.