Norman Rockwell Drawings, 1911-1976

Plunkett profiles visual artist Norman Rockwell, highlighting the exhibit Norman Rockwell: Drawings, 1911-1976 at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge MA. Rockwell's choice to pursue art as a career had influences from both sides of his family. His father worked in a New York City textile...

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Published inAmerican art review Vol. 34; no. 3; p. 72
Main Author Plunkett, Stephanie Haboush
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Stratham American Art Review 01.10.2022
Subjects
20th century
American culture
Art exhibits
Illustrations
Rockwell, Norman (1894-1978)
Visual artists
United States > US
Stockbridge Massachusetts
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Summary:Plunkett profiles visual artist Norman Rockwell, highlighting the exhibit Norman Rockwell: Drawings, 1911-1976 at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge MA. Rockwell's choice to pursue art as a career had influences from both sides of his family. His father worked in a New York City textile firm, but in his spare time at home, he made copies of famous artists' drawings. The earliest evidence of Rockwell's interest in art appears in his remembrance of his father copying illustrations from magazines in the evening after dinner. Rockwell said he joined him, sketching dogs, houses, and vegetables, and from his imagination, pirates and adventurers. Though Rockwell preferred cover work to any other type of assignment, story illustration makes up a large body of Rockwell's art. Narrative texts by a wide range Of authors, both famous and lesser known, were the basis for thousands Of illustrations. His interest in characterization and detail was perfectly suited to story illustration, which enhanced and expanded upon the written word in magazines and books. "An illustration is merely a scene from a story," Rockwell observed.
ISSN:0092-1327