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, The current museum building was designed by 2011 Driheaus Prize winner and New Classical architect Robert A. M. Stern.

thumb|right|No Swimming by Rockwell (1921)

Works by Rockwell at the museum include:

  • Boy with Baby Carriage, 1916
  • No Swimming, 1921
  • Girl Reading the Post (1941) – 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 Fear
  • Going and Coming, 1947
  • Christmas Homecoming, 1948
  • Day in the Life of a Little Girl, 1952
  • Girl at Mirror, 1954
  • Art Critic, 1955
  • Marriage License, 1955
  • The Runaway, 1958
  • Family Tree, 1959
  • The Problem We All Live With, 1963
  • Murder in Mississippi, 1965
  • The Peace Corps (JFK's Bold Legacy), 1966
  • Home for Christmas (Stockbridge Main Street at Christmas), 1967

The museum also houses the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies, a national research institute dedicated to American illustration art.thumb|The central room displaying the "Four Freedoms" paintings. At center is the jacket worn by the model in the "Freedom of Speech" painting.

Awards and grants

In 2008, the museum received the National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2016, the museum received a grant of $1.5 million from the George Lucas Family Foundation, which will be used by "the museum's digital learning and engagement division to create multimedia experiences."

See also

  • List of single-artist museums

thumb|Norman Rockwell's studio

References

Further reading

  • Norman Rockwell Museum within Google Arts & Culture