This weekend one of the finest displays of Norman Rockwell’s artistic talent comes to life, as his stunning 1950 painting Shuffleton’s Barbershop becomes the setting for a new original movie. Starring four-time Emmy nominee Danny Glover, Norman Rockwell’s Shuffleton’s Barbershop is set to premiere this Saturday, June 1, at 9/8c on the Hallmark Movie Channel.
Maps as Propaganda in the Age of Exploration By Stacey Dugan Montebello
New Perspectives on Illustration is an engaging weekly series of essays by graduate illustration students at MICA, the Maryland Institute College of Art. Curators Stephanie Plunkett and Joyce K. Schiller have the pleasure of teaching a MICA course exploring the artistic and cultural underpinnings of published imagery through history, and we are pleased to present [...]
Memorial Day Weekend at Norman Rockwell Museum
Patriotic themes abound in Rockwell’s work and this Memorial Day Weekend is a fitting time to make a visit to our ever-changing galleries. Enjoy three highlight talks offered daily at 11 a.m., 1:00 p.m. and 2:30 p.m., included with your Museum admission. The Museum also welcomes active military personnel with complimentary admission year-round and [...]
Imagination Interacts with Text Words and Images in
Children’s Picture Books By Lynn Chen
New Perspectives on Illustration is an engaging weekly series of essays by graduate illustration students at MICA, the Maryland Institute College of Art. Curators Stephanie Plunkett and Joyce K. Schiller have the pleasure of teaching a MICA course exploring the artistic and cultural underpinnings of published imagery through history, and we are pleased to present [...]
Spring Is In The Air
A rare “still life,” Norman Rockwell’s Spring Flowers was originally a 1969 illustration for McCall’s. The artist was commissioned to paint a series of pictures of seasonal flowers, but he only completed the first.
