Norman Rockwell Museum
The Norman Rockwell Museum is an art museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, United States, dedicated to the art of Norman Rockwell. It is home to the world's largest collection of original Rockwell art. The museum also hosts traveling exhibitions pertaining to American illustration.
History
The museum was founded in 1969 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where Rockwell lived the last 25 years of his life. Originally located on Main Street in a building known as the Old Corner House, the museum moved to its current location 24 years later, opening to the public on April 3, 1993. The current museum building was designed by 2011 Driheaus Prize winner and New Classical architect Robert A. M. Stern.Collection
In addition to 574 original works of art by Rockwell, the museum also houses the Norman Rockwell Archives, a collection of more than 100,000 items, including photographs, fan mail, and various business documents. In 2014, the Famous Artists School donated its archives, including process drawings by Rockwell, who was one of its founding faculty members, to the museum.Works by Rockwell at the museum include:Boy with Baby Carriage, 1916No Swimming, 1921Girl Reading the Post – In 1943, Rockwell gifted this painting to Walt Disney whose daughter, Diane Disney Miller, gifted it to The Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge in 2000 Four Freedoms, 1943
- * Freedom of Speech
- * Freedom of Worship
- * Freedom from Want
- * Freedom from FearGoing and Coming, 1947Christmas Homecoming, 1948Day in the Life of a Little Girl, 1952Girl at Mirror, 1954Art Critic, 1955Marriage License, 1955The Runaway, 1958Family Tree, 1959The Problem We All Live With, 1963Murder in Mississippi, 1965The Peace Corps , 1966Home for Christmas , 1967