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Embedded: Illustrators and the Armed Forces
Despite the growing efficiency of cameras in the nineteenth century, photography on the battlefield was difficult due to long exposures and cumbersome equipment. Because of this, Civil War illustrator reporters like Winslow Homer, Alfred Waud and Edwin Forbes were engaged to capture events that photography at the time could not. In the twentieth century, wartime illustrators remained in demand⸺as skillful practitioners they were able to prioritize in chaotic situations and assemble compelling visual evidence that communicated to viewers in a visceral way.
Jack O’Lanterns – The Hallmark of Halloween
In addition to scary witches and ghosts, glowing pumpkins with carved faces are a quintessential sign of the Halloween season. People have been making jack o’lanterns at Halloween for centuries, but where did the idea come from? One theory as to their origin looks to Ireland and an 18th century folktale about a man named “Stingy Jack.”
NRM Engages Top Illustrators to Inspire Voting through the Power of Art
Norman Rockwell Museum Engages Top Illustrators to Inspire Voting through the Power of Art ‘The Unity Project’ Aims to Motivate and Unify Americans to Exercise Their Rights for the 2020 [...]
The Expressive Face
How did artists like Norman Rockwell, Austin Briggs, Jon Whitcomb, and others create the believable unique faces that can tell a whole story by themselves? In a magazine cover, like those by Rockwell and Stevan Dohanos, the image, with its setting and, most of all, its characters, must convey an anecdote without any help from words. So each face must be carefully crafted to do its part in creating the drama⸺or comedy.
Rose O’Neill: Artist and Suffragette
NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM PRESENTS ROSE O’NEILL: ARTIST AND SUFFRAGETTE Special exhibition celebrates the 2020 Women’s Vote Centennial, on view through September 27 STOCKBRIDGE, MA—Rose O’Neill: Artist & Suffragette is a special [...]
Liza Donnelly: Comic Relief
NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM PRESENTS FIRST MAJOR EXHIBITION FOR CONTEMPORARY ILLUSTRATOR LIZA DONNELLY On View through September 27 STOCKBRIDGE, MA—In the first-ever retrospective exhibition of Liza Donnelly’s work, visitors [...]
Drawing as a way of seeing
If you want to observe an artist at work, a good place to start is with his or her sketchbooks. Here are ideas, techniques, observations, memories – all the underpinnings of the finished work. Often the contents are so free and spontaneous that they draw us in, wanting and needing nothing more than these simple lines on paper.
Harold Von Schmidt: Pictorial Structure through Research
This week’s subject allowed me to delve deeper into a recent acquisition by Harold von Schmidt, a student of the accomplished illustrator Harvey Dunn. Curious about the imprisoned man in “I have had the liberty of speaking through the hold of door to my wife and servants, his editorial read," I performed a web search for the December 1934 issue of The Elks Magazine, to find out more. Luckily, the magazine was digitized.
Justice and Equity Town Hall Forum – Additional Resources
Justice and Equity Town Hall Forum – Additional Resources Black Lives Matter, Liza Donnelly, 2020. All Rights Reserved As part of an important community conversation on current [...]
The “Contemporary” Racial Conscience and Sensitivity of Norman Rockwell
The 1960s would prove to be the opening of the floodgates of Rockwell’s love and concern for all humanity. After leaving the Post in 1963 he did one of his most famous and important paintings, “The Problem We All Live With”. This symbolized a moment in the life of Ruby Bridges at six years old being escorted by U.S. Marshalls to help end segregation in a school in the South. But it was also a depiction of a moment in the state of America that still resonates to this very day and moment.