Welcome to Norman Rockwell Museum's new interactive timeline, where you will find information, slideshows, and videos about Norman Rockwell's life, models, and paintings during the years that he lived in Stockbridge, Massachusetts—from 1953 until his death in 1978.

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To use the timeline, simply click on an image to read more about it. Some pictures contain interactive slideshows with archival photographs and documents that will tell you more about his working methods and creative process. Other images contain videotaped interviews with models and experts who will shed light on the creation of Rockwell's illustrations. The timeline will soon include highlights from Norman Rockwell's entire career. Come back often to watch it grow. We hope you enjoy the tour!

Rockwell in Stockbridge

Norman Rockwell loved everything about Stockbridge, a small, culturally rich New England town. His last studio, which he referred to as his best studio yet, is now located on the Norman Rockwell Museum campus. During the last 25 years of his life, he painted with passion, capturing with detail the everyday moments in the lives of friends and neighbors, as well as subjects as diverse as space travel and civil rights. While living in Stockbridge, Norman Rockwell was a world traveler and gained a global perspective on humanity, as seen in his later works.

ProjectNORMAN

Some of the materials in this timeline are being published for the first time. As a result of the Museum's efforts in digitizing its extensive personal and public papers, art, and archives of Norman Rockwell (ProjectNORMAN), we are able to bring you rare, archival douments that have never been made available to the public before. Work on ProjectNORMAN has been made possible with generous support from Save America's Treasures funding, administered by the National Endowment for the Arts, and an anonymous foundation donor.

• Institute of Museum and Library Science (IMLS)
• National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
• The Stockman Family Foundation

Send your thoughts and comments to communications@nrm.org. We’d love to hear from you.

Norman Rockwell: An Interactive Timeline. © 2007 Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. All rights reserved. The documentation, text, design, images, and video and audio samples are for non-commercial, educational, or personal use only. The pictorial contents of this timeline have been reproduced with the permission of the copyright owners. Content owned by other parties is protected by additional restrictions, including copyright and other proprietary rights held by third parties. Any commercial use, re-publication or re-broadcast is strictly prohibited.

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