WASHINGTON, D.C.- You don’t have to be a rocket scientist or an astronaut to work for NASA. Engineers, pilots, physicists, astrobiologists, and, yes, artists, too, have helped further the mission of the space agency. In 1962, NASA administrator James E…
National Museum of American Illustration Shows Norman Rockwell’s America
Newport, Rhode Island.- After a record-breaking exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery, England’s oldest art museum renowned for their Old Master collection, on the occasion of their 200th anniversary, “Norman Rockwell’s America” returns to the Na…
Norman Rockwell’s America…In England Opens to Critical Acclaim!
LONDON.- It has been a few weeks since the debut of the NMAI and AIG-organized traveling exhibition Norman Rockwell’s America…In England at London’s Dulwich Picture Gallery (oldest art museum in the UK), and the response from the British public and a…
Norman Rockwell Photo Mural "Maple Sugaring in Vermont" Back Where it Belongs
MONTPELIER, VT. (AP).- A photographic mural by artist Norman Rockwell has been returned to its former home in Vermont’s capital, drawing a close to a yearlong dispute between state officials and a museum where it hung for 23 years. The black-and-white …
First Ever Exhibition of Norman Rockwell’s Original Works on View at the Dulwich Picture Gallery
LONDON.- Norman Rockwell was America’s best known and best-loved illustrator for over six decades of the 20th century. Astonishingly prolific, he is best-known for the 322 covers he created for the Saturday Evening Post; but he painted countless o…
From Dali to Marilyn Monroe, Playboy Auctions Art
NEW YORK (AP).- Pamela Anderson and Marilyn Monroe may be names that come to mind when one thinks of the art of Playboy, but how about Salvador Dali? A Dali watercolor of a reclining nude that hung in Hugh Hefner’s bedroom is among 125 artworks being …
Nation’s Illustration Museum Celebrates 10th Anniversary
NEWPORT, RI.- On July 29th, the National Museum of American Illustration (NMAI) celebrated its 10th Anniversary in grand Newport Gilded Age style, honoring Whoopi Goldberg, Tom Wolfe and the National Arts Club (NAC) with their inaugural American Civili…
Crystal Bridges to Loan Major Works by Parrish, Rockwell
BENTONVILLE, ARK.- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will share important works of art by America’s most beloved artist-illustrators with the Toledo Museum of Art. Maxfield Parrish’s lyrical nocturne The Lantern Bearers (1908), originall…
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg Exhibit their Paintings by Norman Rockwell
WASHINGTON, DC.- “Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg” is on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., from July 2 through Jan. 2, 2011. The exhibition showcases 57…