Norman Rockwell Museum
The Norman Rockwell Museum is a museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Its houses the art and archives of American painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell.
| Norman Rockwell Museum | |
|---|---|
 Norman Rockwell Museum main entrance | |
| Established | April 3, 1993 (current building) |
| Location | Stockbridge, Massachusetts |
| Type | Art museum |
| Director | Laurie Norton Moffatt |
| President | Alice Carter |
| Nearest car park | yes |
| Website | nrm.org |
Background
The museum was opened in 1969 in Stockbridge, the town where Rockwell lived the last 25 years of his life. Since 1993 the museum is in the current building that was designed by Robert Arthur Morton Stern.[1]
The museum owns 574 original artworks by Rockwell. The museum also owns the Rockwell archives with more than 100.000 items including photographs, fan mail, and business documents.
In 2008, the museum received the National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities.[2]
Gallery
Series of Rockwell paintings from 1943 called the Four Freedoms. Rockwell was inspired by the 1941 Four Freedoms Speech of American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Norman Rockwell Museum Media
The rear of Norman Rockwell's studio.
References
- ↑ Grimes, William (1993-06-13). "On Picture-Perfect Day, a Norman Rockwell Museum Opens". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 2008-04-08.
- ↑ 2008 National Humanities Medalists Archived 2012-12-14 at Archive.today, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2008, Accessed February 4, 2009.