The Norman Rockwell Museum is home to the world's largest collection of original Rockwell art.
Founded in 1969, the museum is located in Stockbridge, Massachussets, where Rockwell lived the last 25 years of his life. In addition to the 574 original works of art by Rockwell, the museum also houses the Norman Rockwell Archives; a collection of over 100,000 various items, ranging from photographs, fan mail and various business documents.
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Norman Rockwell Museum website (http://www.nrm.org/)
The museum preserves, studies and communicates with a worldwide audience the life, art and spirit of NormanRockwell in the field of illustration.
Museum exhibitions are drawn from museum collections and are designed to be informative and relevant for the widest audiences (beginners, scholars, first-timers and returning visitors, Rockwell admirers and illustration experts), to be responsive to varying individual and group learning styles and be respectful, challenging, empowering and engaging.
Rockwell's image appears on the cover of the exhibition's catalogue and invitation, on posters, metro cards, billboards, and bus posters throughout the city, and will be on the cover of a special edition of "Paris Match" magazine.
NormanRockwell was in a unique position to cover both the everyday and the historic across the twentieth century, from the first transatlantic flight by Charles Lindbergh to Neil Armstrong's first footsteps on the moon.
Rockwell had a strong sense of the importance of each illustration, and his goal was to present to the public the best representation possible.
The museum, dedicated to education and art appreciation, inspired by the legacy of NormanRockwell, preserves, studies and communicates with a world-wide audience, the life, art and spirit of NormanRockwell in the field of illustration.
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