A warm welcome awaits you at Norman Rockwell Museum. Be surprised and delighted at the magnificence of Rockwell's big scale original paintings and observe the highly relatable world of American Illustration – the art that tells our stories. There's e'er something new to enjoy with x galleries of ever-changing special exhibitions, engaging programs, a scenic 36- acre campus, and more. Share memories and make new ones.

Electric current EXHIBITIONS

  • The Time We Spend with Words: A Conversation w/Bascove & Steven Heller
Ellen Gorman 2022-05-03T14:23:19-04:00

On the Groundbreaking Art of Bascove's Book Covers – By Rebecca Rego Barry

From J.M. Coetzee to Alice Walker, a Volume Designer Who Took Risks

Seldom practise volume jacket artists go household names, even in literary households, only there are a few whose piece of work presents such a potent visual identity, readers and bibliophiles can choice them out—even seek them out, in the instance of collectors.
Anne Bascove, known only equally Bascove, is one of those artists, a master printmaker, illustrator, and painter who has designed dust jackets for Alice Walker, Robertson Davies, Jerome Charyn, T.C. Boyle, J.Thou. Coetzee, and others.
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Ellen Gorman 2022-04-15T14:46:43-04:00

Lincoln Memorial Centennial Exhibition: The Lincoln Memorial Illustrated

May vii through September 4, 2022 Created in collaboration with Chesterwood to award the Lincoln Memorial's centennial in May 2022, this exhibition will highlight the work of illustrators and artists who have incorporated the Lincoln Memorial into their art equally a symbolic element - an instantly-recognizable icon upon which to build meaning. Approximately fifty historical and contemporary artworks by noted illustrators and cartoonists volition exist featured, every bit will archival photographs, sculptural elements, artifacts, and ephemera.

Rich Bradway 2022-04-14T11:09:00-04:00

Bascove'southward Shifting Perspective By Steven Heller

I've been enticed and excited by Bascove's imagery ever since I commencement laid eyes on her signature book covers and jackets designed for publishers throughout the 1970s and 80s. Her emotionally-charged woodcuts, pen and brush drawings and hand-crafted gothic lettering grabbed my senses and intensified my interest. The books with her peerless illuminations of the essence author's piece of work were often put face-out on the shelves of my favorite bookselling haunts. That gesture is itself a high class of praise. The artwork certainly encouraged me to read the books.

Postman Reading Mail

Norman Rockwell, Postman Reading Mail service, 1922. Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, February 18, 1922.

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