The Lasting Power of Rockwell
The crowds at the Norman Rockwell show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum have prompted the museum to extend its hours during the upcoming holidays.Read that story here.
Since "Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell From the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg" opened in July, attendance at the museum has soared 30 percent.
Norman Rockwell. The Problem We All Live With. 1963.
Read Ruby Bridges' (the little girl in the above historical masterpiece) modern valiant efforts here.
And read why traditional art critics stuck on "old thinking" and who haven't hit the reboot button when it comes to Rockwell, are wrong. Read that here.
1 comment:
What a powerful painting. Rockwell has a unbelieveable knack for capturing a time, emotion and era. He is by far my favorite American painter. He never produced a bad painting
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