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A major retrospective of his work, Norman Rockwell: Pictures For The American People opens on November 6th at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Later the show will batter down the walls of museums in six other cities, including the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

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Thx, Angelique. I'll be watching this space for the Guggenheim dates and whether the exhibit is due to come to Boston.

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Your very welcome MA*smiles* I'm definitely going to see it myself.

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No matter what anybody says (and the revisionistsare many) Norman Rockwell is too im portant a US artist to trivialize.
I hadda say that cause I know the next bunch of people are gonna be detractors of this mans body of work.

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Actually, that's what I was going to say, too.

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hee hee beeetcha fer once.

I hope it comes to Philly or DC. Ive always been amazed at Rockwell and his ability to direct our eyes by mostly action tricks and cues.

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keeping my mouth shut.

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Rockwell was ambivalent about his position as an artist. He always described himself as an illustrator not a painter.

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Norman Rockwell Museum Stockbridge Mass.

http://www.nrm.org/

This is a description of Rockwell and his art fro the Museum's web site.

Over the years I've done many series of ads . . . I've tried to accept only those jobs which I believe I'll enjoy doing". ?-Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell's early success and popularity as an illustrator gained him celebrity status at a young age. As a result, companies actively sought his talents to help advertise their products.
As an art student, Rockwell and his classmates expressed little interest in commercial work. "[We] signed our names in blood," he said, "....never to do advertising jobs, never to make more than fifty dollars a week." But when he was just twenty, his first advertisement, for Heinz Baked Beans, was published.
By the 1940s, Rockwell's name was a household word, and his illustrations provided product endorsements for a wide range of companies.
Advertising did not have the same creative dimension that Rockwell enjoyed as cover and story artist, since clients or agencies generally presented him with concepts to illustrate. It did offer the artist better compensation and exposure than magazine illustration, and Rockwell accepted commissions from over 150 companies for advertisements, posters, and calendar illustrations.

http://www.nrm.org/exhibits/current/ads.html

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anyone who painted this is ok by me:

http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/past_exhibitions/rockwell/images/problem_md.jpg

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I appreciate Rockwell very much. Let the detractors have their say; it will not sway me.

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Of course he was primarily an illustrator, not a studio painter. That, for me, does not detract from his not inconsiderable talent. His vision is unique and immediately recognizable. You take one look and say, immediately, "Oh, that's a Rockwell," without even needing to look for the signature. For me, it is the very naivetee of some of his story-telling pictures that is so refreshing. In spite of the high technical skill, they remind one of some of the better "primitives," e.g. Grandma Moses.

Don't forget that a number of other respected painters also did commercial illustrations. Winslow Homer started his career as an illustrator for Harper's Weekly during the US Civil War. Toulouse Lautrec did posters for the Moulin Rouge nightclub and other venues. (BTW, there's a fine article on Homer in this week's New Yorker by Adam Gopnik.)

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Rockwell's pix sometimes creep me out.

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littlek wrote:

Rockwell's pix sometimes creep me out.

Why? They are often sentimental, sometimes maudlin, but creepy is not a term I would apply to them

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Acquiunk wrote:

Norman Rockwell Museum Stockbridge Mass.

http://www.nrm.org/

This is a description of Rockwell and his art fro the Museum's web site.

Over the years I've done many series of ads . . . I've tried to accept only those jobs which I believe I'll enjoy doing". ?-Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell's early success and popularity as an illustrator gained him celebrity status at a young age. As a result, companies actively sought his talents to help advertise their products.
As an art student, Rockwell and his classmates expressed little interest in commercial work. "[We] signed our names in blood," he said, "....never to do advertising jobs, never to make more than fifty dollars a week." But when he was just twenty, his first advertisement, for Heinz Baked Beans, was published.
By the 1940s, Rockwell's name was a household word, and his illustrations provided product endorsements for a wide range of companies.
Advertising did not have the same creative dimension that Rockwell enjoyed as cover and story artist, since clients or agencies generally presented him with concepts to illustrate. It did offer the artist better compensation and exposure than magazine illustration, and Rockwell accepted commissions from over 150 companies for advertisements, posters, and calendar illustrations.

http://www.nrm.org/exhibits/current/ads.html

Thank you for the information Acquiunk! The only information I found following my friends lead was an old exhibit. Very Happy

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