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FALL/WINT5 R T 0 I 0 FALL/WINT5 r t 0 i 0 NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM BOARD OF TRUSTEES FROM THE DIRECTOR Lee Williams, President Michelle Gillett, First Vice President Perri Petricca, Second Vice President Steven Spielberg, Third Vice President James W. Ireland, Treasurer Mark Selkowitz, Clerk It's been a wonderful summer at th e Western frontier from a perspective based Ruby Bridges Hall Norman Rockwell Museum. The exh ibi­ on visual culture. Ann Fitzpatrick Brown Alice Carter tion Frederic Remington and the American Lansing E. Crane Civil War: A Ghost Story, about the famed In November, the Museum will open a Michael P Daly artist and illustrator of the American brilliant jewel of an exhibition. More than Catharine B. Deely Peter de Seve West, set th e stage for a summer of west­ Words: Artists' Illustrated Letters from the John V Frank ward-focused fe stivities. The season was Smithsonian's Archives ofAmerican Art Dr. Mary K. Grant launched in June with a boot stompin' hoe­ will showcase beautifully illustrated let­ Ellen Kahn Jeffrey Kleiser down attended by Museum fri ends who ters, including some whimsical works by Mark Krentzman donned great-looking Western attire, dined Norman Rockwell. Stay tuned for a season Deborah S. McMenamy happily at an outdoor barbeque, danced up of fa sc inating programs that will include Wendell Minor a storm to a country-western band, and bid th e art and etiquette of letter writing, inti­ Barbara Nessim Thomas L. Pulling wildly at a live auction. T he event raised a mate talks by artists, a handwriting expert, Tom Rockwell whopping $96,000 to support our educa­ and even a world-famous advice columnist! Diana Walczak tional programs! T he Western-themed fe s­ Richard B. Wilcox Peter Williams tiviti es continued in July in Santa Fe with I'm thrilled to announce the Museum's Jamie Williamson a wonderful reception for Museum friends new travel program that will com- TRUSTEES EMERITI at the exquisite adobe home of renowned mence this April with a tour of Norman Lila Wilde Berle sculptor Malcolm Alexander, hosted by Rockwell 's Italy. Norman was an avid Jane P. Fitzpatrick National Council Members Betsey and travcler who found inspiration for his Paul Ivory David McKearnan. masterpieces all over the world and we David L. Klausmeyer Norma G. Ogden have custom-designed a seri es of excit­ Henry H Williams, Jr. The Museum's popular Thursday evening ing journeys th at will retrace h is steps, HONORARY TRUSTEE programs in July and August enhanced beginning with a trip to one of Norman S. Lane Faison , Jr our understanding of the Wes t with and Molly's favorite destinations-Italy! stimulating lectures and entertaining We will visit Sicil y and then Rome, where Laurie Norton Moffatt, Director performances. Both Calamity Jane and we wi ll spend time with Norman's son, portfolio Theodore Roosevelt dropped by. Dr. Peter, who wi ll introduce us to many of Volume 23, Issue 2, Fa ll/Winter 2006 Homer Meade gave a powerful reading hi s father's favorite places and give us a Kimberly Rawson , Editor Jeremy Clowe, Editorial Assistant ofW.E.B. DuBois's 1903 treatise, The special tour of h is sculpture stud io. It is Mary Herrmann, Toni Kenny, Souls of Black Folk. sure to be an unforgettable experience! Graphic Design Contact us bye-mail at: Guest curator Dr. Alexander Nemerov has We're planning a fun-fi lled event for fami­ communications(ru nrm.org taken a fresh look at how h istori cal events lies and fri ends at the height of the foliage inAuence subsequent generations in the season-complete with the best of the Portfolio is published by Norman Rock­ well Museum at Stockbridge. Inc., and exh ibition, Frederic {{emington and the Berkshire's fa ll produce and comestibles: is sent free to all members. © 2006 by American Civil War. It is a thoughtful and cri spy apples, donuts, hot cid er, pumpkins Norman Rockwell Museum at Stock­ bridge. All rights re served bold ex hibition that examincs how the C ivil and more ! The opening party for Stuffed War, as experienced by Remington through Shirts: SculfJtural Scarecrows In spired by Cover: Woman with Scarecrow © 1936 photography and literature of the period, Rockwell, a juried exhibition of scare­ SEPS : Licensed by Curtis Publishi ng, Indianapolis, IN affected his depictions of the West. The crows created by artists, will be held on Museum has published an informative Saturday, October 7, from 3 to 5 p.m. catalogue to accompany the exhibition that See yo u there! is avai lable through our store. A Remington symposium will be held at the Museum Laurie Norton Moffatt on October 28, with keynote speaker Dr. Nemerov and a host of Remington scholars whose presentations wil l deepen our under­ Kids Frcc 1'\ cry Day! 1\ Gift to Fa mili es fr0 1l1 standing of the Ameri can experience of the CounqyClU'tains. and ThE REO LBlNINN 2 PORTFOLIO Norman Rockwell year-by-year, 1965 III hope this painting might inspire the youth of this land to appreciate this man who believed so much in the value of education." Norman Rockwell in a letter to Donald P. Lindsay, Lincoln First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Spokane, Washington In 1965, two years after leaving The Saturday Evening Post as their most popular cover artist, Norman Rockwell, 71, was busy as ever. The Skippy Peanut Butter ads he had done for the 1963 Best Foods "Whispering Sweepstakes" had produced a winner. The prize was an original Rockwell portrait of the winner, and the winner turned out to be a family of five­ more than Rockwell had bargained for. While working on the family portrait, Rockwell began a life­ size painting of Abraham Lincoln for Lincoln First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Spokane, Wash ington. In 1962, the company's president, Donald P. Lindsay, had commissioned a portrait of Abraham Lincoln for the lobby of the firm's new building, set to open in Considering > • 1964. their institution was a young one, having been formed from a merger in 1950 when they assumed the name Lincoln Savings, and because Spokane was a youthful and growing city, Lindsay requested a young, vigorous Lincoln. Norman Rockwell painting Lincoln the Railsplitter 1965 . Rockwell responded exuberantly, saying he felt Lincoln Photo by Louie Lamone was our greatest American and "the greatest model that FALL/WINTER 2006 3 ever happened." He decided to picture him in a way that On January 19, Rockwell received a call from 20th Century­ emphasized his 6-foot-4-inch stature and to include a symbolic Fox asking him to go to Hollywood that summer to paint a axe and chopping block and book on one side of the figure series of portraits for a remake of John Ford's 1939 movie and a picture of the White House on the other, alluding to Stagecoach. Rockwell was thrilled. In the interim, Rockwell the company's growth and achievement. He would make the worked on Lincoln as well as new sketches of Nathaniel painting eight feet tall. Hawthorne's Hester Prynne and William Thackeray's Becky Sharp, for a proposed b~:lOk on famous fi ctional women. In May 1963, Lindsay asked Rockwell to appear at th e unveiling He started his annual calendar illustration for Boy Scouts of the portrait. Knowing Rockwell had recently traveled to of America and a Pepsi Cola ad of a jolly Santa Claus, and India (to paint Nehru) and Yugoslavia (to paint Tito), Lindsay he continued work begun the previous year on a series of added, "If you could find your way to Pakistan and Yugoslavia, drawings of American women who had sacrifi ced their lives I am sure you could find your way to Spokane." In September, in war. These were to be reinterpreted in bas-relief bronze after receiving a preliminary color sketch from Rockwell , tablets by his son Peter in Peter's Rome studio and installed Lindsay had his designer choose carpeting, drapes, and a ceiling in the Bell Tower of Cathedral of the Pines in Rindge, color to complement the painting, and he gave Rockwell a New Hampshire. July I, 1964 deadline. Rockwell replied that 1964 was an election year and he was obliged to paint portraits of candidates After leaving the Post in 1963, Rockwell agreed to work for Lyndon B. Johnson and Barry Goldwater for Look and portraits Look, a magazine that used abundant photos and some of their wives for McCall 's. illustrations for its focus on current events. The Problem We All Live With, Rockwell's first commission for Look, gave In June 1964, Lindsay sent a curt reply stating that he was readers throughout the country a look at school desegregation disappointed with Rockwell's inability to meet the deadline in the south. Portraits of presidential candidates and a 1964 and that there was a considerable blank space on the west painting for NASA's space program followed. Murder in wall of their main room. He asked Rockwell to accept a new Mississippi, the first of three Look commissions in 1965, shed deadline of no later than January 1,1965, and reminded him light on another aspect of racial prejudice in America. It that he and his wife were expected for the unveiling. A letter produced stunned and complex reactions from viewers. After in August urged Rockwell for reassurance that he would fini shing the piece, Rockwell , on his calendar, summarized meet the new deadline. In November, Lindsay wrote to say his own visceral reaction as " bi g nerves a tingle." he was releasing information to the media and that if the painting was not completed by the first of the year, Rockwell By early spring, Rockwell finished Murder in MississipPi , would put them in a very embarrassing position.
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