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Please note that American Chronicles opens at Norman Rockwell Museum on July 4 and runs through September 7, 2009. It is a traveling exhibitioncurrently on national tour.


Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Art Critic, 1955. Oil on canvas, 39 ½" x 36 ¼". Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, April 16, 1955. Norman Rockwell Museum Collections. ©SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Artist Facing Blank Canvas, 1938. Oil on canvas, 38 ½" x 30 ½". Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, October 8, 1938. Inscribed "To my good friends Jorj and Ben Harris." Norman Rockwell Museum Collections. ©SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), A Scout is Helpful, 1939. Oil on canvas, 34" x 24". Illustration for Boy Scouts of America calendar, 1941. Norman Rockwell Museum Collections. ©Norman Rockwell Family Agency. All rights reserved.
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Checkers, Norman Rockwell, 1928. Oil on canvas, 35" x 39". Story illustration for Ladies Home Journal, July 1929. Norman Rockwell Museum Collections. ©Norman Rockwell Family Agency. All rights reserved.

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Uneasy Christmas in the Birthplace of Christ, 1970. Oil on canvas, 33" x 51". Story illustration for Look, December 29, 1970. Norman Rockwell Museum Collections. ©Norman Rockwell Family Agency. All rights reserved.
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Christmas Homecoming, 1948. Oil on canvas, 35 ½" x 33 ½". Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, December 25, 1948. Norman Rockwell Museum Collections. ©SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Day in the Life of a Little Girl, 1952. Oil on canvas, 45" x 42". Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, August 30, 1952. Norman Rockwell Museum Collections. ©SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Family Tree, 1959. Oil on canvas, 46" x 42". Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, October 24, 1959. Norman Rockwell Museum Collections. ©SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Freedom from Fear, 1943. Oil on canvas, 45 ¾" x 35 ½". Story illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, March 13, 1943. Norman Rockwell Museum Collections. ©SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Freedom from Want, 1943. Oil on canvas, 45 ¾" x 35 ½". Story illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, March 6, 1943. Norman Rockwell Museum Collections. ©SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Freedom of Speech, 1943. Oil on canvas, 45 ¾" x 35 ½". Story illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, February 20, 1943. Norman Rockwell Museum Collections. ©SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Freedom of Worship, 1943. Oil on canvas, 46" x 35 ½". Story illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, February 27, 1943. Norman Rockwell Museum Collections. ©SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Girl at Mirror, 1954. Oil on canvas, 31 ½" x 29 ½". Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, March 5, 1954. Norman Rockwell Museum Collections. ©SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Going and Coming, 1947. Oil on canvas, 16" x 31 ½". Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, August 30, 1947. Norman Rockwell Museum Collections. ©SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Murder in Mississippi, 1965. Oil on canvas, 53" x 42". Painting intended as the final illustration for Southern Justice by Charles Morgan, Jr., Look, June 29, 1965, unpublished. Norman Rockwell Museum Collections. ©Norman Rockwell Family Agency. All rights reserved.
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), No Swimming, 1921. Oil on canvas, 25 ¼" x 22 ¼". Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, June 4, 1921. Norman Rockwell Museum Collections, ©SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN

Norman Rockwell with preliminary studies for The Art Critic in his Main Street, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, studio, 1955. Photo by Bill Scovill (1915-1996). ©Norman Rockwell Family Agency. All rights reserved.
Norman Rockwell entering the South Street, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, studio, 1966. Photo by Louie Lamone (1918-2007). ©Norman Rockwell Family Agency. All rights reserved.

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), The Stay at Homes (Outward Bound), 1927. Oil on canvas, 39 ¼" x 32 ½". Illustration for Ladies' Home Journal, October 1927. Norman Rockwell Museum Collections. ©Norman Rockwell Family Agency. All rights reserved.
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), The Discovery, 1956. Oil on canvas, 35 ¼" x 32 ½". Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, December 29, 1956. Norman Rockwell Museum Collections, ©SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), The Problem We All Live With, 1963. Oil on canvas, 36" x 58". Illustration for Look, January 14, 1964. Norman Rockwell Museum Collections. ©Norman Rockwell Family Agency. All rights reserved.
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Triple Self-Portrait, 1959. Oil on canvas, 44 ½" x 34 1/3". Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, February 13, 1960. Norman Rockwell Museum Collections. ©SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Welcome to Elmville, 1929. Oil on canvas, 33" x 27". Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, April 20, 1929. Norman Rockwell Museum Collections. ©SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Mine America's Coal, 1944. Oil on canvas, 21" x 14". Illustration for the U.S. Office of War Information poster. Norman Rockwell Museum Collections. ©Norman Rockwell Family Agency. All rights reserved.

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Murder in Mississippi (preliminary sketch), 1965. Oil on board, 15" x 12 ¾". Preliminary sketch published as the first illustration for Southern Justice, by Charles Morgan, Jr., Look, June 29, 1965. Norman Rockwell Museum Collections. ©Norman Rockwell Family Agency. All rights reserved.