Meet a Rockwell Model Friday, October 11 3 p.m. Find out what it was like to pose for America’s favorite illustrator from Rockwell’s own models, who will share their personal experiences. This week will feature the model for The Runaway, Ed Locke. Free for Members, or included with Museum admission.
Working for the Pulps: Popular Illustration in the 1930s With illustrator/educator Dennis Dittrich Saturday, October 12, 1:00 p.m. Pulp magazines, the popular, inexpensive fiction publications that were read and enjoyed by millions, reached their zenith in the 1930s, though the genre began in earnest in 1896 with The Argosy, a monthly magazine that was printed on low-cost pulp paper. Presented on newsstands alongside scores of glossies, pulp magazines caught the eye of passersby with their [...]
Norman Rockwell and Erik Erikson in Detail Friday, October 25, 1:30 p.m. Discover Norman Rockwell’s unique visual storytelling and learn about his relationship with famous psychologist Erik Erikson and how they inspired and supported each other with Deputy Director/Chief Curator Stephanie Plunkett. Free for Members, or included with Museum admission.
FINAL WALK OF THE SEASON Historic Property Walks Thursdays, July 11 – October 31, 2 p.m. Enjoy a guided walk on the Museum’s 36-acre site and learn about Peter Rockwell’s sculptures, the indigenous Mohican Indians, our view of Monument Mountain, and the historic Linwood house, an 1859 Berkshire Cottage. End at Norman Rockwell’s own Stockbridge Studio. Find out more about Rockwell's studio...
Meet Rockwell’s Models First Fridays, November 1, December 6, January 3, February 7, 3 p.m. Find out what it was like to pose for America’s favorite illustrator from Rockwell’s own models. Free for Members, children/teens 18 and under, or included with admission. December 6: Ed Locke – model for The Runaway; Before the Shot January 3: Ed Locke February 7: Claire Williams - model for Family Planting Tree, Woman at Home, Woman at Office
It is with gratitude and humility that we acknowledge that we are learning, speaking and gathering on the ancestral homelands of the Mohican people, who are the indigenous peoples of this land on which the Norman Rockwell Museum was built. Despite tremendous hardship in being forced from here, today their community resides in Wisconsin and is known as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. We pay honor and respect to their ancestors past and present as we commit to building a more inclusive and equitable space for all.