Ms. Emily Schiller will give a public lecture at the Norman Rockwell Museum on Saturday April 6, 2013 at 5:30 pm. Ms. Schiller is a 2012 recipient of a Rockwell Center Dissertation Fellowship, funded by the Robert Lehman Foundation. Her dissertation, titled “Unsettled Masses: Transportation in American Art During the 1930s and 1940s,” is focused on artistic representations [...]
New essay on Rockwell Center web site
On March 21, 2013, the Rockwell Center will offer another new posting exploring a work of illustration art. Lately we’ve been very fortunate to host a run of guest writers for these essays. Tomorrow our colleague, Dr. Heather Campbell Coyle, Curator of American Art at the Delaware Art Museum, will share her comments on a cover [...]
See new Rockwell Center essay
Check out the new essay on Frederic Remington’s Infantryman in Field Costume by Richard J. Boyle on the Rockwell Center web site. Go to http://www.rockwell-center.org/exploring-illustration/remingtons-infantryman/
Patriots Day April 16 in Massachusetts
Today, April 16, 2012, is Patriots Day in Massachusetts. This is a civic holiday that commemorates the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord that began the American Revolutionary War. See the related posting on the Rockwell Center website about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride” at http://www.rockwell-center.org/exploring-illustration/paul-reveres-ride/
Illuminating Darkness (A Rockwell Center Posting)
Illuminating Darkness Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) | And the Symbol of Welcome is Light, 1920 | Advertising illustration for Mazda Edison Company | Oil on canvas | Collection of General Electric Lighting Company, Cleveland, Ohio Recently in the New York Times (Sunday, January 8, 2012) there was an article about how a variety of American cities [...]
