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Opening September 20, 2009
Through through January 3, 2010
NORMAN ROCKWELL
Sponsored by Sterling Glen
Senior Living
With Support from Wachovia Bank and Wells Fargo and Company
People like to think that Rockwell painted
Middle America. The truth is, Norman Rockwell invented Middle
America.
Artist/Illustrator Tom Sgouros,
Rhode Island School of Design
“I paint life as I would like it to be,” said the
great illustrator Norman Rockwell. Seeing himself as a storyteller,
Rockwell created the images that defined America and Americans,
in this country and abroad. His enormous impact was achieved through
the 321 covers he created for Saturday Evening Post from 1916
to 1963. Among Rockwell’s most memorable renditions of Americana
is his much-loved Four Freedoms series of patriotic paintings
symbolizing President Roosevelt’s wartime aims: Freedom
of Speech, Freedom to Worship, Freedom from Want and Freedom from
Fear. This contribution to the war effort, published in four consecutive
issues of the Saturday Evening Post, raised nearly $140 million
in war bonds.
NORMAN ROCKWELL, opening at Nassau County Museum of Art (NCMA)
on Sunday, September 20, 2009 and remaining on view through Sunday,
January 3, 2010, is organized by American Illustrators Gallery,
New York City and The National Museum of American Illustration,
Newport, Rhode Island. The exhibition is curated for NCMA by Constance
Schwartz and Franklin Hill Perrell and includes approximately
300 Saturday Evening Post covers and about 48 Rockwell paintings.
The exhibition is sponsored by Sterling Glen Senior Living with
support from Wachovia Bank and Wells Fargo and Company.
For information about the events or to register, call (516)
484-9338, ext 12 .
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