Summer 2003 Norman Rockwell, Year by Year: 1942, by Linda Pero
Vermont living, aside from an occasional Grange Hall square dance or town meeting,
provided few distractions for a work-centered artist such as Norn1an Rockwell. Few social or professional expectations, aside from the pleasurable evening cocktail hour with his Saturday Evening Post colleagues, Mead Schaeffer and Jack Atherton, dissuaded him from time at his easel. The relative solitude along with winter’s cold and shortened daylight hours eventually urged Rockwell and his family to find diversions.
Freedom: Norman Rockwell’s Vermont Years, by Linda Pero
The artwork and artifacts featured in this summer’s special exhibition, Freedom: Nonnan Rockwell’s Vem10nt Years, trace the life and work of Rockwell from 1938, when he first traveled to Vermont in search of a summer home, to 1953, when he moved to Stockbridge, Massachusetts.Drawing Inspiration: Top Illustrators Describe Favorite Rockwell Paintings, by Jeremy Clowe
The first meeting of the Norman Rockwell Museum’s Illustrators Advisory, a talented group composed of the nation’s leading artists in the illustration field, was held in January. The illustrators plan to meet annually at the Museum to discuss a variety of subjects relating to the art and business of illustration, the Museum and its programs. We asked each illustrator on the council to tell us “what is your favorite Norman Rockwell painting and why?”