The Saturday Evening Post: cover, April 1, 1961 (This Sunday will be the 57th anniversary of the Golden Rule).
A group of people of different religions, races and ethnicity served as the backdrop for the inscription “Do Unto Other As You Would Have Them Do Unto You.” Rockwell was a compassionate man, and this simple phrase reflected his philosophy.
“I’d been reading up on comparative religion. The thing is that all major […]
Our acclaimed exhibition, "We The Peoples: Norman Rockwell’s United Nations" officially closed on September 15, yet the United Nations Headquarters in New York continues to experience unique “Norman Rockwell” moments. This past Friday, September 25, the United Nations welcomed His Holiness Pope Francis, during his first-ever visit to the United States. Prior to addressing the UN’s General Assembly, Pope Francis took time out to admire Norman Rockwell’s Golden Rule, which remains on temporary loan to the UN from the Museum’s collection. Rockwell’s painting, in fact, served as the perfect backdrop for the pontiff’s visit, where he had referenced the concept of “the golden rule” during his historic address to Congress just the day before. Pope Francis can be seen signing the UN’s guestbook in the same room where Rockwell’s welcoming artwork is currently displayed.
In preparing to paint this 1961 Saturday Evening Post cover, Norman Rockwell noted that many countries, cultures, and religions incorporate some version of the Golden Rule into their belief systems. “Do Unto Others as You Would Have Them Do Unto You” is a simple but universal phrase that reflected Rockwell’s personal philosophy.
NEW YORK (AP) — Latest developments in Pope Francis’ visit to the United States. All times local:
8:55 a.m.
Pope Francis has signed U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s visitors’ book as he visits the world body’s headquarters.
The pontiff took a white card from his pocket and copied a lengthy message into the thick, bound book in the secretary-general’s conference room.
The secretary-general also showed the […]
This week the United Nations rededicated a large mosaic of Norman Rockwell's "Golden Rule," which hangs in their New York City Headquarters. Read more about the development on Norman Rockwell's iconic 1961 painting, which is part of the permanent collection of Norman Rockwell Museum.
This production, directed by high school senior Eliza Keenan, is based on four personal visual immigration stories created by artists David Macaulay, Frances Jetter, James McMullan and Yuyi Morales and featured in the current exhibition Finding Home: Four Artists’ Stories. These stories are woven with Berkshire County Immigrant Stories collected over the last six months in Berkshire County, MA to connect themes from the exhibition with real stories from the community surrounding the Museum. To set the stage, the show begins with a video portrait of Norman Rockwell’s process for creating the painting, the Golden Rule. The artist and Berkshire Immigrant Stories follow, and the show concludes with an original song by student Fiora Laina.
Through October 31, 2011 The first reinstallation of Norman Rockwell’s Stockbridge Studio, A Day in the Life brings visitors back to October 1960, when the artist was hard at work on one of his most famous Saturday Evening Post covers, The Golden Rule.
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
The Problem We All Live With, 1963
Illustration for Look, January 14, 1964, pp. 22-23
Oil on canvas
Norman Rockwell Museum Collection, NRM.1975.01
After resigning his forty-seven year tenure with The Saturday Evening Post in 1963, Rockwell embraced the challenge of addressing the nation’s pressing concerns in a pared down, reportorial style. The Problem We All Live With for […]
Returning to Stockbridge following a six city tour that has taken Rockwell’s art and the work of other creators to New York, Detroit, Washington DC, Normandy, France, Houston, and Denver, Norman Rockwell: Imagining Freedom explores the indelible odyssey of the Four Freedoms, humanity’s greatest and sometimes most elusive ideals.
The 1960s would prove to be the opening of the floodgates of Rockwell’s love and concern for all humanity. After leaving the Post in 1963 he did one of his most famous and important paintings, “The Problem We All Live With”. This symbolized a moment in the life of Ruby Bridges at six years old being escorted by U.S. Marshalls to help end segregation in a school in the South. But it was also a depiction of a moment in the state of America that still resonates to this very day and moment.
Berkshire Immigrant Stories
We are our stories.
We are resilience.
We are hope.
We are dreamers.
– Yuyi Morales
Learn more about the Finding Home Exhibition.
Berkshire Immigrant Stories was a collaborative effort to record and share Berkshire County residents’ stories of their journeys to the United States and our region. Some of these stories are personal, while others recount familial immigration journeys. These rich […]
As part of its summer lecture and performance series, Inventing America: Art and Cultural Connections, Norman Rockwell Museum will present the talk "Norman Rockwell and the American Ideal: A European Viewpoint" on Thursday, August 17, starting at 5:30 p.m.
Iva Tijan, a noted scholar from the University of Zagreb department of Humanities and Social Studies in Croatia will join James Kimble, Ph.D. to discuss the impact of Norman Rockwell’s published imagery—particularly his Four Freedoms—on both European perceptions of America and on national aspirations.
“Rockwell’s United Nations, as the UN itself, remains an unfinished work.” “The work, which Rockwell never turned into a painting, will be exhibited for the first time outside its home…” “This unique exhibition bridges the local and the global.” “Norman Rockwell was there — in more ways than one…” […]
Visit our Virtual Museum!
Norman Rockwell Museum has been creating new ways for our visitors to discover our extensive collections of art, historical objects and scholarship.
We are thrilled to now have curated experiences that collect related images, photography, video, audio and history relating to the Museum’s renowned collection of Norman Rockwell’s original paintings, his Stockbridge Studio, as well as the Museum’s vast collection of illustration art.
Please enjoy exploring this expanded content that […]
We The Peoples: Norman Rockwell’s United Nations
With war raging around the globe, in 1941 when Norman Rockwell responded to the United States government’s call to artists to depict President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Four Freedom ideals, he turned to the subject matter he knew best: ordinary people. The resulting images became some of the most […]
Happy New Year from Norman Rockwell Museum. We start 2014 with an exciting list of exhibitions and programs for the whole family, including "Dance," a family day inspired by the art of Ruth Sanderson (January 11); a lecture by Jane Allen Petrick, author of "Hidden in Plain Sight: The Other People in Norman Rockwell's America" (January 18); and a celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, January 20. Programs are free with regular Museum admission.
The end of the summer has brought much cause for reflection here at Norman Rockwell Museum— important milestones, the passing of former colleagues and friends, and devastating storms, which have forced our neighbors to rebuild and start again. We would be remiss in not also reflecting on the tragic events that took place ten years ago, on September 11, 2001. A decade later our nation still struggles to find peace and solace from the events that unfolded on that otherwise clear, late summer day.
Norman Rockwell Museum will present a poetry reading and book signing with Randall R. Freisinger, author of “Nostalgia’s Thread: Ten Poems on Norman Rockwell’s Paintings,” on Saturday, October 9, starting at 1 p.m. The poems in “Nostalgia’s Thread” reconsider the American experience as depicted in ten of Rockwell’s best-known paintings. Admission to the poetry reading and book signing is free with […]
Art Museum Day Friday, May 18, 2012, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Springtime Main St in Stockbridge Walking Tour Saturday, May 19, 2012, 1 to 3 p.m. Current Exhibitions: A Day in the Life: Norman Rockwell’s Stockbridge Studio Norman Rockwell’s "Willie was Different" Curator’s Choice: Recent Gifts to the Permanent Collection Everett Raymond Kinstler: Pulps to Portraits Norman Rockwell’s 323 "Saturday Evening Post" Covers
Museum staff organize professional development seminars and develop special school-based curriculum projects on Rockwell, illustration, and visual communication. To discuss how we can work with you, please contact:Education Department 413.298.4100, ext 260 or 252
Thank you, thank you for your pictures of the world we live in. Of thanks-giving and gossips of war and prejudice. Of our lives. I LOVE them ALL! – Emily, age […]
February 8, 2024—Norman Rockwell Museum is pleased to announce this summer's landmark exhibition exploring the art, satire, and cultural impact of MAD Magazine, one of the longest-running humor publications in America. Opening June 8 and running through October 27, What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine presents iconic original illustrations and cartoons from MAD's longtime regular contributors, dubbed the "Usual Gang of Idiots," as well as next-generation visual satirists.
BETWEEN WORLDS: The Art and Design of Leo Lionni
November 18, 2023 to May 27, 2024
Between Worlds: The Art and Design of Leo Lionni is the first major American retrospective dedicated to the art and design work of groundbreaking modernist designer and children’s book illustrator Leo Lionni (1910-1999). “Design is form,” the artist said, “Sometimes it is decorative form, and has no other function that […]
Opening June 11, 2022, Imprinted: Illustrating Race examines the role of published images in shaping attitudes toward race and culture. More than 100 works of art and artifacts of widely circulated illustrated imagery will be on view, produced from the late eighteenth century to today, which have an impact on public perception about race in the United States. The exhibition will explore stereotypical racial representations that have been imprinted upon us through the mass publication of images. It culminates with the creative accomplishments of contemporary artists and publishers who have shifted the cultural narrative through the creation of positive, inclusive imagery emphasizing full agency and equity for all.
STOCKBRIDGE, MA, September 7, 2023—Norman Rockwell Museum presents the first major American retrospective of artist Leo Lionni, a groundbreaking modernist graphic designer and magazine art director who gained worldwide popularity as the writer and illustrator of nearly 40 children’s books in as many years. Opening November 18 and running through May 27, 2024, Between Worlds: The Art and Design of Leo Lionni explores the artist’s vision and legacy across three distinct yet interrelated domains: graphic art and design; children’s books; and personal works in various media.
STOCKBRIDGE, MA—Norman Rockwell Museum (NRM) announces the opening of a newly curated exhibition featuring rarely-seen Norman Rockwell drawings and preliminary studies from his six-decade career on view September 10, 2022, through January 7, 2023. The exhibition coincides with the release of Norman Rockwell: Drawings, 1911-1976, a new book by Abbeville Press written by Museum curators Stephanie Haboush Plunkett and Jesse Kowalski, available in early October.
STOCKBRIDGE — A fist raised high in the air, a foot planted firmly on the step in front of her, the woman at the center of "American Uprising" — wearing a T-shirt with an image of George Floyd and an American flag scarf around her neck — urges the crowd of protestors behind her to follow. It's a moment etched in time — of unity, of a movement to end systemic racism toward African Americans — a Black Lives Matter protest.
This comprehensive exhibition of original Saturday Evening Post cover tear sheets features each of Norman Rockwell’s illustrations for the publication, created between 1916 and 1963.
Tuesdays at 5:30pm in July & August 2021
In Person: included with admission
Online: Members Free, Non-members: $5
Meet the international illustrators featured in the Fantasy Art exhibition on view at the Museum this summer. Join us in person, or online to hear from these world class illustrators. Learn about what inspires them, their current work, and future aspirations, followed by a […]
