Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the 1969 Moon Landing at the Norman Rockwell Museum

Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the 1969 Moon Landing
at the Norman Rockwell Museum

Experience ‘One Giant Leap for Mankind’ through Original Art, Photographs,
and Archival Footage on Display at the Museum

Images available upon request
Press contact:
Margit Hotchkiss
Chief Marketing Officer
presscontact@nrm.org; Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), The Final Impossibility: Man’s Tracks on the Moon 1969. Collection of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. ©Norman […]

Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the 1969 Moon Landing at the Norman Rockwell Museum2019-07-16T15:33:37-04:00

Man on The Moon

Norman Rockwell Museum is saddened to hear about the loss of astronaut Neil Armstrong (1930-2012), who died this past Saturday. As commander of the Apollo 11 spacecraft, Armstrong made history on July 20, 1969, as the first human to set foot on the moon. Artist Norman Rockwell would later pay tribute to the event in his 1969 painting, "The Final Impossibility: Man's Tracks on the Moon."

Man on The Moon2018-04-27T16:42:16-04:00

BETWEEN WORLDS: The Art and Design of Leo Lionni

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 […]

BETWEEN WORLDS: The Art and Design of Leo Lionni2024-03-13T21:35:19-04:00

Norman Rockwell: Cover Artist

Norman Rockwell: Cover Artist

Dreaming up ideas for magazine covers and putting them to canvas was Norman Rockwell’s true passion. Although he painted Boy Scout calendars for most of his life, in addition to countless advertisements and story illustrations, magazine cover assignments gave Rockwell the freedom to create images that have come to symbolize American life in the early twentieth century.

Norman Rockwell: Cover Artist2023-06-06T15:30:46-04:00

Norman Rockwell: Covering the Post

Norman Rockwell: Covering the Post

Like most illustrators, Norman Rockwell worked within the realm of aesthetics, commerce, and technology. An astute visual storyteller and a masterful painter with a distinct, personal message to convey, Rockwell constructed fictional realities that offered a compelling picture of the life that many Americans aspired to. Anxiously awaited by an enthusiastic public, his seamless narratives assured audience engagement with the […]

Norman Rockwell: Covering the Post2022-05-09T11:22:27-04:00

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.”

Jack O’Lanterns – The Hallmark of Halloween2020-10-28T17:01:46-04:00

September 2019 Day-by-day Calendar of Programs and Events at Norman Rockwell Museum

September 2019 Day-by-day Calendar of Programs and Events at Norman Rockwell Museum

Images available upon request
Press contact:
Margit Hotchkiss
Chief Marketing Officer
presscontact@nrm.org;

Exhibitions Through October 27, 2019

Woodstock to the Moon: 1969 Illustrated
From man’s first steps on the moon to a gathering of 400,000 concertgoers on a farm in Upstate New York, 1969—the year of the Museum’s founding—witnessed momentous cultural transition. Culled from the […]

September 2019 Day-by-day Calendar of Programs and Events at Norman Rockwell Museum2019-08-23T10:58:53-04:00

Family Friendly: Thursday Evening Fun Series

NEW!
Thursday Evening Fun Series
Thursdays, July 11 – August 22
5 – 7 p.m.

Location: on the back side of the terrace and the lawn adjacent to terrace.

This family-friendly series is all about looking closely at art, telling the story it invites, making art on the terrace, listening to music, and creating group dances on the lawn with Moving Arts Exchange. The Runaway Cafe will be open to offer picnic-friendly meals, SoCo ice cream, […]

Family Friendly: Thursday Evening Fun Series2019-07-31T10:54:37-04:00

NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM TURNS 50!

NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM TURNS 50!

Museum commemorates milestone with suite of exhibitions
exploring the man, his art, his time.
Yearlong roster of public programs and events
explores the power of illustration to inspire and foster change

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NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM TURNS 50!2019-04-09T13:24:27-04:00

MEDIA ADVISORY: NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM TURNS 50!

This summer, the Norman Rockwell Museum celebrates 50 years as the nation’s leading center for illustration art with a suite of three special exhibitions that explore Rockwell’s art, life, and legacy, and the year 1969, as well as an installation of photographs, new media, and artifacts that together evoke Stockbridge’s Old Corner House, where the Museum was first established.

MEDIA ADVISORY: NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM TURNS 50!2019-01-31T10:49:28-05:00

Norman Rockwell Museum Presents Inventing America: Rockwell and Warhol

This summer and fall, Norman Rockwell Museum will present the first exhibition to examine the artistic and cultural influence of Norman Rockwell and Andy Warhol and the continued influence of their indelible legacies—Inventing America: Rockwell and Warhol is on view at Norman Rockwell Museum from June 10 through October 29, 2017.

Norman Rockwell Museum Presents Inventing America: Rockwell and Warhol2017-09-27T15:22:22-04:00

We The Peoples: Norman Rockwell’s United Nations


What people are saying about We The Peoples: Norman Rockwells United Nations

“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…” […]

We The Peoples: Norman Rockwell’s United Nations2017-03-01T11:38:13-05:00

The Unknown Hopper: Edward Hopper as Illustrator

June 7 through October 26, 2014 Many noted American modernists have successfully traversed the worlds of fine art and illustration, embracing innovation while satisfying in unique and personal ways the needs and wants of a broad popular audience. Edward Hopper, American Illustrator presents a unique and comprehensive study of the little-known twenty year illustration career of the realist master. Attitudes toward art and the crosscurrents of contemporary commercial society during the early to mid twentieth century will be explored in this exhibition, which seeks to provide an integrated understanding of Hopper’s published and personal art.

The Unknown Hopper: Edward Hopper as Illustrator2017-03-01T11:39:12-05:00

Norman Rockwell Museum Presents “Wendell Minor’s America”

Wendell Minor is considered one of our nation’s premier historical illustrators, traveling throughout the United States to research, draw and paint on location, and immerse himself in the subject at hand. This fall Norman Rockwell Museum celebrates the artist’s four-decade career, highlighting his many cover illustrations and 25th anniversary illustrating children’s books, each inspired by his love of history, art, science, and the natural world—”Wendell Minor’s America” is on view at the Museum from November 9, 2013 through May 26, 2014.

Norman Rockwell Museum Presents “Wendell Minor’s America”2017-03-01T11:39:29-05:00

Happy Birthday, Norman Rockwell!

Photo of Norman Rockwell and Grandma Moses, circa 1949. Photographer unknown. Norman Rockwell Museum Digital Collections. ©NRELC: Niles, IL. Photo of Norman Rockwell and Grandma Moses, circa 1949. Photographer unknown. Norman Rockwell Museum Digital Collections. ©Norman Rockwell Family Agency. All rights reserved.

Born on February 3, 1894 in New York City, Norman Rockwell always knew he wanted to be an artist. At the age of 14 he […]

Happy Birthday, Norman Rockwell!2017-03-01T11:40:20-05:00
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