TEA, TALK & BOOKSIGNING – Painting America’s Portrait: How Illustrators Created America

June 17, 2017 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Tea, Talk & Booksigning
Painting America’s Portrait: How Illustrators Created America
with Author James C. Thompson
Saturday, June 17 at 2 p.m.

Explore the ways that America’s visual storytellers capitalized on three decades of advances in corporate advertising and image reproduction technology to create highly dramatic and colorful images that envisioned the American dream. In his recent book, James Thompson begins with an account of World War I prior to America’s entry in April 1917, and describes the role of the Committee of Public Information, which recruited talented illustrators to rally public opinion and build support for the nation’s wartime goals. Tea and treats will be served and a booksigning will follow the program. Free for Museum members, or included with Museum admission.

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Land Acknowledgement

It is with gratitude and humility that we acknowledge that we are learning, speaking and gathering on the ancestral homelands of the Mohican people, who are the indigenous peoples of this land on which the Norman Rockwell Museum was built. Despite tremendous hardship in being forced from here, today their community resides in Wisconsin and is known as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. We pay honor and respect to their ancestors past and present as we commit to building a more inclusive and equitable space for all.

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