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Norman Rockwell Museum will be open this Easter weekend, and loves company! Bring your family and friends to view the best of American illustration art.
Learn more about Norman Rockwell's holiday-themed 1959 painting, Easter Morning, represented in our exhibition, Norman Rockwell's 323
Saturday Evening Post Covers...
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Hearsay to Heresy:
An Evening of Satire, Balladeering, and Political Unrest
Saturday, April 19, 5 p.m.
Enjoy this one-man, three-act play by poet/author Nathan Smith, which traverses the 19th century and explores humanity's interactions with nature. A reception and refreshments will follow. Adults: $10, $6 for Museum members; children 12 and under: $5; free with Museum admission.
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Animals Galore!
Monday, April 21 -
Saturday, April 26, 1 to 4 p.m.
Get inspired by the art on view! Find animals real and imagined in the Museum's galleries and create a creature of your own design. Free with Museum admission.
Dynamic Duo! An Afternoon with Florence and Wendell Minor
Saturday, April 26, 1 to 4 p.m.
Pandas, penguins, and pussy cats, oh my! Wendell and Florence Minor will offer readings and talks about the art on view in Wendell Minor's America, with a book signing to follow. Enjoy an afternoon of music, art making, and more! Free with Museum admission.
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Form, Function, and Furnishings
Sunday, April 27 at 2 p.m.
What's in a couch? Dr. Joyce K. Schiller, curator of the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies, will discuss the stories that illustrations of interior spaces reveal by analyzing the furnishings and decorative objects that appear in them. Tea and treats will be served! Free with Museum admission.
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An Afternoon with Author Mary Higgins Clark and Wendell Minor
Saturday, May 10, 1 to 2:30 p.m.
Join us for an exciting afternoon with renowned suspense novelist Mary Higgins Clark, whose forty-plus book have been bestsellers in the United States and throughout the world. Ms. Higgins Clark will be joined by illustrator Wendell Minor in conversation about their long-running friendship and their collaboration on two illustrated children's books, The Magical Christmas Horse and Ghost Ship.
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Daisy Rockwell, Norman Rockwell's granddaughter, proves that creativity continues along the Rockwell family tree! Enjoy the artist's new novel, Taste, now on sale in the Museum's online store...
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Image credits:
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Easter Morning, 1959. Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, May 16, 1959. Private collection. ©1959 SEPS: Licensed by Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN
Murray Tinkelman, New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio, 1991. Ink on paper. ©Murray Tinkelman. All rights reserved.
Wendell Minor, illustration for If You Spent a Day with Thoreau at Walden Pond by Robert Burleigh, 2012. ©Wendell Minor. All rights reserved.
Wendell Minor, illustration for The Buffalo are Back by Jean Craighead George, 2010. ©Wendell Minor. All rights reserved.
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Boy Practicing Trumpet, 1950. Norman Rockwell Museum Digital Collections. ©SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN.
Image courtesy Daisy Rockwell. All rights reserved.
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