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Norman Rockawell: Imagining Freedom - A Virtual Exhibition

This virtual exhibition is an experience that you access on your computer, mobile device, or virtual reality (VR) headset.  Once you purchase it, you can access it at any anytime, anywhere, however many times you would like.

Price: $5
Members: Free

Organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum, Imagining Freedom is a virtual exhibition that explores the history and enduring legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s concept of the Four Freedoms.  The exhibition also highlights the important role played by Norman Rockwell and other American artists in communicating and advancing these universal values.

Imagining Freedom brings together over 400 artworks and objects organized into 8 thematic galleries. This exhibition is based on the exhibition Norman Rockwell: Imagining Freedom that traveled to six cities across the United States of America and France, before returning to the Norman Rockwell Museum.  This virtual exhibition provides over 3x the amount of content than what was in the original exhibition.  Viewers can explore layers of content drawn from the Museum’s collections and archives, including audio and video, reference photographs and studies, interviews, historical documents, letters and artist’s statements.

Imagining Freedom - Main Gallery
Speeches of Freedom for Freedom of Speech

Experience the beautiful galleries of Norman Rockwell Museum in the comfort of your own home, on the road, or in the classroom!

You can interact with practically every element in the exhibition.  Many of the images, especially those by Norman Rockwell, provide deeper access to related materials in the Museum’s digital collection, including: reference photos, sketches, studies, and correspondence.

Access new content specifically produced for this virtual exhibition including the Speeches of Freedom gallery.

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  • Raid, Yusufiyah, watercolor and gouache, 2003

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.

  • Grandfather_Frightened_by_Jack-O-Lantern

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.”

Land Acknowledgement

It is with gratitude and humility that we acknowledge that we are learning, speaking and gathering on the ancestral homelands of the Mohican people, who are the indigenous peoples of this land on which the Norman Rockwell Museum was built. Despite tremendous hardship in being forced from here, today their community resides in Wisconsin and is known as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. We pay honor and respect to their ancestors past and present as we commit to building a more inclusive and equitable space for all.

Postman Reading Mail

Norman Rockwell, Postman Reading Mail, 1922. Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, February 18, 1922.

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