Autumn 1994 Curator’s Corner, by Maureen Hart Hennesey
While Norman Rockwell is best known for his magazine cover illustrations, advertising and other commercial art comprise the largest category of illustration work Rockwell created. During his long career, Rockwell worked for over 150 companies, and produced more than 800 advertisements, calendar illustrations, logos and mastheads.
Art and World War II, by Philip B. Meggs
One can identify a society’s major concerns from its communication art. The raison d’etre of communication art is to convey messages within a culture. This is in contrast to those works whose primary purpose is decoration or personal expression by the artist.Monsters are Emerging, by Cris Raymond
From the Swat Valley of Pakistan, where he was examining archeological digs for the Italian Institute for Near and Far Eastern Studies, and via Rome, Italy where he lives, Peter Rockwell arrived in Stockbridge with all the tools one needs to begin work on carving monsters out of an eight-foot high, 5 1/2 ton piece of Indiana limestone.