Norman Rockwell Museum
Coordinates: 42°17′16″N 73°20′09″W / 42.2879°N 73.3359°W
| Norman Rockwell Museum | |
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 Location within Massachusetts
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| Established | 1969, built 1993 |
| Location | Stockbridge, Massachusetts |
| Type | Arts museum |
| Website | http://www.nrm.org |
The Norman Rockwell Museum is a museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, with art of the painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell.
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Background [change]
The museum was opened in 1969 in Stockbridge, the town where Rockwell lived the last 25 years of his life. Since 1993 the museum is housed in the current building that has been designed by Robert Arthur Morton Stern.[1]
The museum is the owner of 574 original artworks of Rockwell. Next to that it owns the archive of Rockwell with more than 100.000 items, like photo's, fan mail and business documents.
In 2008, the museum received the National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities.[2]
Gallery [change]
Series of paintings of 1943 of Rockwell, called the Four Freedoms. For it he got inspired by the 1941 Four Freedoms Speech of Amerikcan President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Norman Rockwell |
References [change]
- Parts of this article are derived from the article on English Wikipedia
- ↑ Grimes, William (1993-06-13). "On Picture-Perfect Day, a Norman Rockwell Museum Opens". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE2DA1131F930A25755C0A965958260&scp=5&sq=%22Four+Freedoms%22+Rockwell&st=nyt. Retrieved 2008-04-08.
- ↑ 2008 National Humanities Medalists, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2008, Accessed February 4, 2009.
