Norman Rockwell Museum Director/CEO Laurie Norton Moffatt has been invited by the U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia, Donald Booth, to travel to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, as a U.S. Speaker and Specialist of the Department of State’s Bureau of International Information Programs.
Norman Rockwell’s Peace Corps and Four Freedoms Celebrated in Ethiopia
Norman Rockwell traveled to Ethiopia on assignment for Look Magazine in 1964 to paint United States Peace Corps volunteers on site conducting their humanitarian outreach. President John F. Kennedy founded the Peace Corps movement in 1961. The Peace Corps was designed to inspire mutual understanding between Americans and other cultures around the world.
20 years […]
It’s the summer blockbuster season… and we’re not talking movies (except we are). Earlier this month The Smithsonian American Art Museum opened "Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg;" and Norman Rockwell Museum opened "Rockwell and the Movies." Visitors have been enjoying the opportunity to learn about Rockwell’s connections to Hollywood during the course of his long career...
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Norman Rockwell’s inspiring and enduring painting
By BRUCE COLE
A hundred thousand people came to see them in Washington and New York, a million more in other major cities across the […]
Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms - Emblems of Hope and Freedom. When President Obama was bestowed the Nobel Peace prize this week, several aspects struck me as Rockwellian...
Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed. And perhaps, therefore, this is one function of the illustrator. He can show what has become so familiar that it is no longer noticed. The illustrator thus becomes a […]
A Brief Biography
Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing
the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed.
—Norman Rockwell
Born in New York City in 1894, Norman Rockwell always wanted to be an artist. At age 14, Rockwell enrolled in art classes at The New York School of Art (formerly The Chase School of Art). Two years later, in 1910, he left high school to study […]
NORMAN ROCKWELL: A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
Born in New York City in 1894, Norman Rockwell always wanted to be an artist. At age 14, Rockwell enrolled in art classes at The New York School of […]
Museum staff organize professional development seminars and develop special school-based curriculum projects on Rockwell, illustration, and visual communication. To discuss how we can work with you, please contact:Education Department 413.298.4100, ext 260 or 252
Thank you, thank you for your pictures of the world we live in. Of thanks-giving and gossips of war and prejudice. Of our lives. I LOVE them ALL! – Emily, age […]
ABOUT THE MUSEUM OUR MISSION
MUSEUM HISTORY Founded in 1969 with the help of Norman and Molly Rockwell, Norman Rockwell Museum is dedicated to the enjoyment […]
Norman Rockwell: Cover Artist
Dreaming up ideas for magazine covers and putting them to canvas was Norman Rockwell’s true passion. Although he painted Boy Scout calendars for most of his life, in addition to countless advertisements and story illustrations, magazine cover assignments gave Rockwell the freedom to create images that have come to symbolize American life in the early twentieth century.
In Our Lifetime: Paintings from the Pandemic by Kadir Nelson
Final Days: Closing November 2
June 11 through November 2, 2022
“I’ve always loved creating a narrative with my work, and as we all lived through the pandemic as it gained momentum, each painting I created began to tell a visual story, historical documents on canvases that chronicled the emotional, political, and social pulse of the world […]
Virtual Program - Free Event
Thursday, April 29, 2021 – 7 p.m.
Pat Oliphant: Editorial Cartoons from the Nixon and Clinton Eras
February 4 through May 31, 2021
Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Patrick Oliphant was described in 1990 by the New York Times as “the most influential editorial cartoonist” of his time. Spanning more than sixty years, Oliphant’s finely-tuned drawings have cast a clear eye on global politics, culture, the economy, and […]
Liza Donnelly: Comic Relief
Liza Donnelly
Love in the Time of Social Distancing, March 2020
Ink and watercolor on paper
Collection of the artist
In discussing this drawing, Liza Donnelly said: “Our globe is experiencing a terrible pandemic, one that is killing thousands of people of every gender, race, class, and religion. As a cartoonist, it is […]
The Problem We All Live With, Norman Rockwell. 1963. Story illustration for Look, January 14, 1964. From the permanent collection of Norman Rockwell Museum. Image © Norman Rockwell Museum. All Rights Reserved.
Dear Community,
When the civil rights movement was at its height during my childhood in the 1960s, visual images brought to the world the violence, terror, […]
We The Peoples: Norman Rockwell’s United Nations
With war raging around the globe, in 1941 when Norman Rockwell responded to the United States government’s call to artists to depict President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Four Freedom ideals, he turned to the subject matter he knew best: ordinary people. The resulting images became some of the most […]
Saying Grace, Norman Rockwell. 1951. Oil on canvas Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, November 24, 1951 Ken and Katherine Stuart Collection ©1951 SEPS: Licensed by Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN
What an autumn […]
