Norman Rockwell Museum
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The Norman Rockwell Museum is an art museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, United States, dedicated to the art of Norman Rockwell. It is home to the world's largest collection of original Rockwell art. The museum also hosts traveling exhibitions pertaining to American illustration.
History
The museum was founded in 1969 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where Rockwell lived the last 25 years of his life.<ref name=nrmAbout>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Originally located on Main Street in a building known as the Old Corner House,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> the museum moved to its current location 24 years later,<ref name=nrmAbout/> opening to the public on April 3, 1993.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The current museum building was designed by 2011 Driheaus Prize winner and New Classical architect Robert A. M. Stern.<ref name=nrmAbout/>
Collection
In addition to 574 original works of art by Rockwell, the museum also houses the Norman Rockwell Archives, a collection of more than 100,000 items, including photographs, fan mail, and various business documents. In 2014, the Famous Artists School donated its archives, including process drawings by Rockwell, who was one of its founding faculty members (in 1948), to the museum.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Works by Rockwell at the museum include:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
- Boy with Baby Carriage, 1916
- No Swimming, 1921
- Girl Reading the Post (1941) – In 1943, Rockwell gifted this painting to Walt Disney whose daughter, Diane Disney Miller, gifted it to The Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge in 2000 <ref>Girl Rockwell Gave to Disney By David Verzi, The Portfolio Magazine (Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge, Spring, 2000</ref>
- Four Freedoms, 1943
- Going and Coming, 1947
- Christmas Homecoming, 1948
- Day in the Life of a Little Girl, 1952
- Girl at Mirror, 1954
- Art Critic, 1955
- Marriage License, 1955
- The Runaway, 1958
- Family Tree, 1959
- The Problem We All Live With, 1963
- Murder in Mississippi, 1965
- The Peace Corps (JFK's Bold Legacy), 1966
- Home for Christmas (Stockbridge Main Street at Christmas), 1967
The museum also houses the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies, a national research institute dedicated to American illustration art.
Awards and grants
In 2008, the museum received the National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2016, the museum received a grant of $1.5 million from the George Lucas Family Foundation, which will be used by "the museum's digital learning and engagement division to create multimedia experiences."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
See also
References
Further reading
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External links
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- 1969 establishments in Massachusetts
- Art museums and galleries established in 1969
- Art museums and galleries in Massachusetts
- Artists' studios in the United States
- Biographical museums in Massachusetts
- Museums devoted to one artist
- Museums in Stockbridge, Massachusetts
- National Humanities Medal recipients
- New Classical architecture in the United States
- Norman Rockwell
- Robert A. M. Stern buildings