"Rockwell’s America" named London’s best art exhibition for 2011 by American Spectator magazine

LONDON.- The American Spectator magazine’s December/January 2012 issue named the National Museum of American Illustration‘s Norman Rockwell’s America – at London’s oldest art museum, Dulwich Picture Gallery for their Bicentennial Celebration last year- to be London’s best art exhibition of 2011. The exhibition drew record-setting attendance numbers as the first ever showing of Rockwell’s original artworks in the UK, and is now on display at the NMAI in Newport, Rhode Island under the title Norman Rockwell: American Imagist. Rockwell has been considered America’s best-known illustrator for much of the 20th century. Noted English journalist and historian Paul Johnson, writing in The American Spectator, expounds upon the merits of his artworks by proclaiming the exhibition London’s best. He states Rockwell’s work “does not need any explaining, [or] justifying,” rather

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