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NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM BOARD OF TRUSTEES FROM THE DIRECTOR Daniel M . Cain, President Perri Petricca , First Vice President Michelle Gi llett, Second Vice President Steven Spielberg, Third Vice Presiden t James W. Ireland, Treasurer Dear Museum friends, recently signed legislation to make Norman Peter Williams, Clerk Ann Fitzpatrick Brown, Deputy Clerk Rockwell the Official State Artist! (See What a wonderful year it's been! From the page 11.) Clarke Bailey White House to the Massachusetts State Lil lian Bender Ruby Bridges Hall House to Orlando, Florida, the Norman Sharing Rockwell's Legacy campaign Alice Carter Rockwell Museum continues to be at the is on the road. My travels have included Mary & Robert Crowell Catharine B. Deely center of many exciting projects! Houston and San Antonio, Texas, and Peter de Seve Southwest Florida, from Naples to Tampa, Walter & Mary Jo Engels In February, I represented the Museum at where trustees Lee Williams and Ann John V. Frank Mark Gold the White House to celebrate the launch Brown hosted events. In the coming Dr. Mary Grant of an exciting program by the National years, I will be traveling to many places Steven Hirsch Endowment for the Humanities and the across the country and hope to personally George & Valerie Kennedy Pame la Kinsey American Library Association. Norman meet many of our national membership. Mark Krentzman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech was selected Also, for those of you who live far from Deborah S. McMenamy Wendell Minor as one of 40 works of art in a new educa Stockbridge, the Museum has more than Anne Morgan tion program, "Picturing America," which a dozen exhibitions traveling the nation. Barbara Nessim uses art, architecture and decorative arts Duncan Pollock Thomas L. Pulling to study American history and culture. The New York Times featured the Norman Cynthia Rockwell (See page 6.) Rockwell Museum in two recent articles. Mark Selkowitz John Spellman In May, a wonderful Times story captured Richard B. Wilcox Verizon Corporation donated their iconic the Norman Rockwell Museum family Lee Williams painting The Lineman to the Museum, experience, called "Museums That Speak Jamie Williamson where it had been on loan to us for 15 to Children" and, in March, the Museum TRUSTEES EMER ITI years, thanks to a corporate relationship was featured in an article about American Lila Wilde Berle with Board President Dan Cain and the single artist museums. Jane P. Fitzpatrick Paul Ivory Museum's long-time art ties with the phone Norma G. Ogden company. A press announcement was made Catch campaign fever this summer as David L. Klausmeyer at the Museum on March 12 with Verizon the Museum celebrates the Commander Henry H. Williams, Jr. executives and working lineman in atten in Chief through the eyes of Norman Laurie Norton Moffatt, Director/CEO dance at the event. (See page 9.) Rockwell and political satirist Steve portfolio Brodner in two exhibitions that honor Volume 24, Issue 1, Summer 2008 American Chronicles: The Art of Norman the spirit of American democracy. Kimberly Rawson, Edi tor Jeremy Clowe, Editoria l Assistant Rockwell closed in Ohio, with the largest Toni Kenny, Pablo Zalles exhibition attendance ever at the Akron Raw Nerve! The Political Art of Steve Graphic Design Art Museum. The exhibition has also Brodner is a timely glimpse into the wild

Contact us bye-mail at: been tremendously popular at its second world of political campaigns. Don't miss [email protected] stop at the Orlando Museum of Art in our July 17 program at 5:30 p.m., when Mr. Portfolio is published by Norman Rock Florida. Many NRM member events were Bradner will speak about the 2008 presiden well Museum at Stockbridge, Inc. , and hosted this winter in Florida, including at tial campaign fram his unique perspective. is sent free to all members. © 2008 by Norman Rockwell Museum at Stock Fort Myers Beach, Vero Beach, Sarasota, bridge. All rights reserved . and Orlando. The exhibition, which will An installation of artist-designed garden Cover: David Woad, Molly Rockwell, tour 12 cities in the coming years, is gen gates will adorn our paths and lawns this and Barbara Socha Perke/. Photo by erating a large amount of national press summer. Save the date for our intimate Clemens Kalischer. coverage as it travels. (See page 9.) Garden Gates Garden Party on July 10. We look forward to seeing you at the Museum! What do Norman Rockwell and the ~V' ..... , (;rn \ Accredited by the chickadee have in common? They are " ~. j Ameri can Association of Museums. both official icons of the Commonwealth ' ... 4CltiJ'~ Kids Free Every Day! A Gift to Fa mi lies from of Massachusetts. Governor Deval Patrick O>unqyCurtains. and ThE RED LrnNINN

2 PORTFOLIO Capturing Stockbridge: Norman Rockwell's unintentional record of the people and places of Stockbridge, Massachusetts

by Linda Szekely Pew

Without deliberately time. Financial records, however, document a number of intending to do so, payments to New York City modeling agencies during Norman Rockwell Rockwell's Stockbridge years. In one case, when he needed spent the last 25 years to pose a nude for his painting of a lobsterman with a of his life chronicling mermaid as his catch and felt he could not ask a local the people and places woman to pose, Rockwell hired a professional model. The of Stockbridge, majority, though, were local people from Stockbridge and Massachusetts. When the neighboring town of Lenox and city of Pittsfield. Rockwell moved to Stockbridge in Rockwell's financial records give us the date, model's name, 1953 , he immediately commission, and fee paid for each session. In many cases, began hiring town Rockwell used models for multiple images, that is, he residents to pose for repeatedly commissioned certain children or adults for his commissions. The different assignments. While living in ew Rochelle, ew treasure of images and York, and later in Arlington, Vermont, he talked about having records that document posing sessions resides within the favorite models, and this trend seems to have held true for archives of the orman Rockwell Museum. Stockbridge. We are compiling models' names as recorded by Rockwell and will, whenever called for, add subsequent name For the next several years, the Museum will organize and changes. Our records will be reconciled with the town's to digitize this image collection, with the goal of making it verify citizenship and spelling (Rockwell was notorious for accessible to researchers and historians seeking information bad spelling and his handwriting was often illegible). about Stockbridge and its residents, and the role they played in Rockwell's creative process-a role exemplified in A common regret of Rockwell models is that their image was such paintings as Home for Christmas (Stockbridge Main never used in a Rockwell painting. Often a variety of people Street at Christmastime), Stockbridge in Springtime, and were posed and photographed for the same character before The New American La France is Here. Early in his career Rockwell decided which person to use in the final image. as an illustrator, Rockwell relied on professional models, Sometimes a person's likeness served as a departure point often out-of-work actors, but when he moved to Vermont for a fictitious character. The archives hold many of these in 1939, distance mandated posing neighbors most of the photographic choices and financial records of most sessions.

SUMMER 2008 3 Rockwell was careful to pay models by check, in order to painting Stockbridge in Springtime, and St. Joseph's appears have a record of payment. Along with a signed "Model in photos of Elm Street taken but never used. Interior views of Release," the check represented a contractual agreement the town clerk's office on Main Street are captured in photos between model and artist that the likeness could be used for Marriage License, a 1955 Saturday Evening Post cover. The commercially andlhat all rights were relinquished to the office of Dr. Donald Campbell, the town's beloved family artist. The session became a work for hire, and copyrights doctor, is remembered in photos taken for Rockwell's 1958 Post belonged to Rockwell. cover Before the Shot. The ambiance of a 1950S lunch counter, for the 1958 Post cover The Runaway, is captured in photos of Because so many cats and dogs appear in Rockwell pictures, Francis Lis's nearby Housatonic restaurant. an attempt to idenlify lhem also will be made. Many were Rockwell family pels, some were neighbors' pets, and others The metadata that accompanies Rockwell 's records were renled from a Lee, NIassachusetts, veterin arian, Dr. of model ing sessions is an added source of interesting Bernard Collins. When a painting called for a specific breed, information about Rockwell's methods, including working such as the malamutes pictured ill the 1964 Brown & titles for pictures, how many projects overlapped, and fees Bigelow Four Seasons calendar illustration of the salesman paid to models. When he lived in Vermont, where he shared trying to sell a refrigerator to an Eskimo family, Rockwell models with several Saturday Evening Post cover artists, a fonnd a breeder. common complaint was that Rockwell lured models away with higher wages. Rockwell 's sons say he chronically overpaid For Slockbridge residents, viewing Rockwell's reference people-for everything. Generally, prices for photo sessions photos for Home for Christmas, the painting of the town's in the late 1950S were $ 5 or $10 for children and $10 or $20 Main Street that was published as a ga tefold in McCall's for adults. Models who traveled from out of town were paid December 1967 issue, is a wa lk down memory lane. Stores more. The yo ung lady who posed nude for the 1955 Mermaid such as Alj on's and the Stockbridge Shop now evoke distant painting was paid $100 and Red Sox baseball players Jackie memories. Three of the town's churches-St. Paul's Episcopal Jensen, Frank Sullivan, and Sam White were paid $100 each Church, First Congregalional C hurch of Stockbridge, and St. to pose for Rockwell's 1957 Post cover Red Sox Locker Room. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church-are captured in reference photos. Rockwell did an intricate drawing of St. Paul's stone In addition to images of the town specifically taken for exterior as a signature image for church publications, the artwork, the archives hold images taken to record specific Congregational Church appears in photos for Rockwell's events, such as Norman Rockwell Day, a 1976 celebration

4 PORTFOLIO of the arti st's life and work. Images picture Stockbridge O ur collection of images, oral histori es, and video interviews citizens, their parade, and the Rockwell fa mily seated at a chronicle the relationships and experi ences of those who ceremonial dais. Prominent citi zens also appear in candid knew Rockwell . T hey leave an indelible footprint of the social photos recording visits to Rockwell in his studio. Mr. and culture of Stockbridge in the second half of the twenti eth Mrs. John Deely, Mr. and M rs. Henry W. D wight, and century. T his special focus on Stockbridge will guide the former State Senator and M rs. John H . Fitzpatrick went to m anagem ent and organizati onal activiti es of the Norman the studio to sit for commissioned portraits. Henry D wight Rockwell archives in the coming yea r. Future researchers of and the Fitzpatricks also posed for Rockwell illustration the collection will inevitably find new themes and meaning in assignments. Also preserved are photos of Norman and the many images and records that inadvertently captured the Molly Rockwell with Austen Riggs psychologist Erik Erikson peopl e and places of Stockbridge. and his wife, Joan, which document an informal visit with the Rockwells. Photos of the 1974 Stockbridge selectmen, Linda Szekely Pero is curator of No rman Rockwell collections and a group portrait, shot in Rockwell's studio, of Norman at Norman Rockwell Museum. Rockwell , Kenneth Mynter, Douglas McGregor, and C . Roy Boutard reenacting their interpretation ofhow Stockbridge PAGE 3: Jam es S. Hall was one of the many models who posed but wasn't used in a Rockwell painting. Fo r his 1959 Boy Scout calendar il lustration, Mighty government offi cials might have looked two centuries earli er Proud, Rockwell decided on a slightly different pose of an old er boy. Photo by are also in the archives. Bi ll Scovi ll, 1956.

PAGE 4: Aljon's and The Stockbridge Shop, Main Street, Stockbridge. Photos by Preservation of outdated technology and its reformatting to Clemens Kalischer, 1961. digital media will allow us to link important audio and reel PAGE 5, LEFT IMAGE: Former State Senator John H. Fitzpatrick and Mrs. Jane to-reel recordings to digital records of Stockbridge citizens. Fitzpatrick pose for an unpublished illustration for William Makepeace A video recording of art histori an Helmut Wohl and an Thackeray's Becky Sharp. RI GHT IMAGE: Photo by Louie Lamone, 1964. Mr. and Mrs. John H. Fitzpatrick and daughter Ann pose for Franklin Mint's 1972 silver interview with Rosamond Sherwood are candidates for di gital Christmas plate Carolers . Photo by Louie Lamone, 1970. conversion, as are interviews with Jarvis Rockwell, David H. Wood, Bill Scovill , Margaret Batty, Pat Deely, Anne Braman, Shawn Morse, C laire and Robert William s, and D ennis Carr. Audio recordings by Frank Dolson, Walter Scott, David Loveless, and D r. Donald Campbell are invaluable records for the study of Rockwell and the history of Stockbridge.

SUMME R 2008 5 Picturing America

Norman Rockwell Museum Director/CEO Laurie Norton Moffatt attended a special event at the White House on February 26,2008, hosted by President and Mrs. George W. Bush, to help celebrate the launch of "Picturing America," a new educational initiative from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Norman Rockwell's 1943 painting Freedom of Speech was chosen as one of 40 iconic images to be included in the initiative, developed by the NEH in coop eration with the American Library Association, to enhance the teaching, study, and understanding of American history and culture by bringing some of the nation's greatest works of art Freedom of Speech, Norman Rockwell. © 1943 SEPS : Licensed by Cu rtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN into school classrooms and public libraries.

"We are honored to have Norman Rockwell's Freedom of basic freedoms President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had envi Speech represented in this visionary program from the Na sioned for a postwar world in a speech given in January of 1941; tional Endowment for the Humanities," notes Norton Moffatt. the paintings, originally published in The Saturday Evening "Rockwell's iconic image communicates our basic democratic Post in 1943, were so well-received that they were included as principles with strength and elegance, and illuminates our part of a national tour which helped earn 133 million in war understanding of American history and culture through the bonds and stamps. The original Four Freedoms paintings are in visual image." She adds that "it was a thrilling privilege to the permanent collection of the Norman Rockwell Museum. attend the White House ceremonies for the launch of this important national education program." Through the "Picturing America" program, Freedom of Speech will be distributed along with works by such noted artists as President Bush stated at the ceremony that "at their best, the Mary Cassatt, N.C. Wyeth, Winslow Homer, and Frank Lloyd arts and humanities express the ideals that define our nation. Wright, as a large, high-quality reproduction, with additional The United States is a country defined not by bloodline, race, materials and lessons plans for use by educators. The NEH or creed, but by our character and convictions. We are united states that "by bringing some of our country's finest works of by an unyielding principle, and that is, all men are created art directly to the classrooms and providing the educational equal. We firmly believe that each man and woman has the context for these images, we can open more eyes to the legacy right to make the most of their God-given talents. And we of our great country." believe that all are endowed with the divine gift of freedom." To learn more about the "Picturing America" educational Freedom of Speech is part of Norman Rockwell's Four Free initiative, visit their Web site at picturingamerica.neh.gov, or doms, an enduring quartet of paintings created by the artist caII1.800.NEH.1l21. during World War II. Rockwell hoped to represent the four

6 PORTFOLIO Raw Nerve! The Political Art of Steve Bradner on view June 7 through October 26,2008 by Charles Sable

Steve is a great American rebel and crusader kind of twenty-first century Tom Paine armed with an illustrator's pen.

-Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Editor, The Nation

Explosive is an apt term that describes the art of Steve Brodner, whose deftly executed drawings cast a spotlight on the American political scene as it unfolds before us. Working on a national pol itical stage for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, The Nation, and Newsweek, Bradner is one of the most successful, influential, and widely read of today's political illustrators. His wry humor and unique ability to conceive visual concepts inspired by icons of popular culture resonate through our shared cultural memory. His powerful images speak to us with precision and directness, offering fresh perspectives and revealing sometimes painful truths about our world and the influential leaders of our times.

Raw Nerve! The Political Art of Steve Bradner, on view at the Norman Rockwell Museum from June 7 through October 26, 2008, is the first major exhibition of the work of America's most important political illustrator. It explores Debate Night, © 2008 Steve Brad ner. Al l righ ts reserved. themes as compelling and disparate as the war in Iraq, American foreign policy, the Clinton and Bush presiden tradition of Thomas Nast and the time-honored art of political cies, and "hot button" issues that affect all Americans. satire, Raw Nerve! anticipates our nation's upcoming presi dential election with incisive visual commentary on today's The exhibition examines the artist's creative and technical most prominent leaders and their legacies. process and includes a fascinating comparison with portraits of political candidates created by Norman Rockwell dur Charles Sable is a curator at Norman Rockwell Museum. He is ing a very different era in U.S. political history. In the finest the curator of Raw Nerve! The Political Art of Steve Bradner.

SUMMER 2008 7 Over the Top The Illustrated Posters of World War I on view November 8, 2008 through January 25, 2009 l by Stephanie Haboush Plunkett

During th e First World experi ence during the War, richly illustrated earl y twentieth century. posters inspiring pub- orman Rockwell's lic support served as a primary mechanism in gs, which are among of mass communica the most memorable tion. Designed to rall y images created during Americans to th e cause, World War II, will be they were powerful on view in an adjoin symbols of our nation's ing gall ery. engagement with four Liberty Loan campaigns, Over the Top: Ameri the War Savings Stamp can Posters from World program, th e Victory War I has been orga Loan, and the American ni zed by the Smith Red Cross. Persuasive sonian American visual artifacts featuring Art Museum, Wash bold graphics, powerful ington, D.C., and is imagery, and concise supported in part by Clockwise: Howard Chand ler Ch risty, Fight or Buy Liberty Bonds, 1917. J.e. Leyendecker, Weapons commands, posters of for Liberty-U.S.A. Bonds, 1918. Ja mes Montgomery Flagg, Boys and Girls, You Can Help Your th e C.F. Foundation, the era encouraged a Uncle Sam, 1918 . Atlanta. The exhibi- sense of nationalism and tion features selected pride, and roused Ameri cans to support their troops, fund in posters from th e collection of Thomas and Edward Pull ternational aid projects, and buy bonds to fin ance America's ing, grandson and great-grandso n of th e Honorable R. C. participation in th e wa r. Leffi ngwell , Assistant Secretary of th e Treasure and head of th e War Loan Organization. Leffingwell was charged by Iconic symbols of the United States, in cluding the Statue of President Woodrow Wilson and Secretary of th e Treasury Liberty, Uncle Sam, and th e American fl ag, appeared promi William C. McAdoo to devise a strategy for underwriting nentlyon many World War I posters, ri chl y designed by an the wa r effo rt. He received this coll ecti on of posters in grati impressive roster of celebrated illustra tors. Dynamic imagery tude for his role in the success of th e wa r bond campaigns. by J.C. Leyendecker, James Montgomery Flagg, Howard Chandler C hristi e, Jess ie Will cox Smith, Henry Ral eigh Stephanie Haboush Plunkett is deputy director and chief and others provide a fascinating window to th e American curator at Norman R9chvell Museum.

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American Chronicles: The Lineman T he Art of Norman Rockwell Norman Rockwell Museum's exhibi Finds tion American Chronicles: The Art of Norman RoclMell continues to Permanent delight audiences as it travels to museums nationwide. Featuring Home masterpieces from the coll ection of Norman Rockwell Museum, the ex hibition explores Norman Rockwell 's Norman Rockwell's stunning 1948 unparall eled role as an American painting The Lineman was donated icon-maker and storyteller and traces to the Norman Ro ckwell Museum the evolution of Rockwell 's art and on March 12, 2008, as a special gift iconography throughout his career. from Verizon Communications. The Visit the Museum's Web site at www. oil-on-canvas painting, was officially nrm.org for an interactive tour of the presented to M useum Director/CEO exhibition, a map with links to all Laurie Norton Moffatt by Donna the venues and other exhibition-re Cupelo, Verizon region president of lated materials. Massachusetts and Rhode Island, Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio during a special press conference Nov. 10, 2007 - Feb. 3, 2008 held at the M useum. The painting, Donna Cupe lo, Ve ri zon region president of Orlando Museum of Art, Florida Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and Lau ri e originally created by Rockwell for an ad March 1 - May 26, 2008 for New England Telephone, features a Norton Moffatt, Director/CEO of Norman Rockwell Museum. Chrysler Museum of Art, heroic lineman high above the ground Norfolk, Virginia repairing a telephone line. In the Nov. 8, 2008 - Feb. 1, 2009 fall of 1947, Rockwell drove around and enjoyed it for many, m any years; it Detroit Institute of Arts, M ichigan the countrys ide near his Arlington, perfectly symbolizes our heritage and March 8 - May 31, 2009 Vermont, home and throughout western our commitment to our customers. At Massachusetts looking for telephone the same time, we recognize that its Museum of Art, linemen at wo rk and searching for a ri ghtful place is with the Museum so Fort Lauderdale, Florida Nov. 14, 2009 - Feb. 7, 2010 lineman with the build and face that he that it can be enjoyed by everyo ne." had envisioned. His search ended when Wichita Art Museum, Kansas he spotted New England Telephone "Thanks to Verizon's generosity, March 6 - May 30, 2010 employee and Lenox, Massachusetts, th e public will be able to enjoy this North Carolina Museum of Art, resident, John Toolan, digging and m agn ifi cent painting forever. The Raleigh setting telephone poles with a crew in Lineman joins Norman Rockwell Nov. 6, 2010 - Jan. 30, 2011 C heshire, Massachusetts. Museum's distingui shed collection of Tacoma Art Museum, Washington Rockwell's work that tell s the story of Feb. 26 - May 30, 2011 The origin al painting had been on loan Am eri ca. We are honored to be the Crocker Art Museum, to the Museum sin ce 2006 from the guardian of this Ameri can treasure, Sacramento, CA Verizon collection. Said Cupelo, "We and to carry forward the colorful story Nov. 10, 2012 - Feb. 2, 2013 in the Verizon family loved this painting of its creation," said Norton Moffatt.

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Rockwell on Kudos for LitGraphic: The World of the Graphic Novel the Road The Norman Rockwell Museum has composed an exhibition that gives visibility and legitimacy to those artists and writers who have used the comic form to tackle serious subject matter. - Josh O'Gorman, Berkshire Record

Mom's Cancer creator Brian Fies admires the work of his fe ll ow graphic novelists during the exhibition opening.

This breathtaking show may be the final /JTOof that comic books - nowadays trumpeted as "graphic novels" - have become respectable. That is, we no longer have to wince, or apologize, when we are caught reading one. - Alan Bisbort, Hartford Advoca te

Cerebus creator Dave Sim poses next to his artwork at the exhibition opening. The exhibit is a must, not only for comic fan s, but for anyone who Composer Stell a Sung, Laurie Norton Moffatt celebrates illustration, graphic and Orlando M use um of A rt Director, Marina commentary, personal storytelling, Gran t Morrissey, after the Orl and o Philharm on ic humor, fin e mt, or the constant Orches tra premiere of M s. Sun g's co mposi ti on, Breathtaker co-creators Marc Hempel (left) and Mark Rockwe ll Re flecti ons. evolution of eX/Hession. Wheatley (right) join NRM's communications assis - Kathryn Lange, Metro land tant and LitGraphic video creator Jeremy ( lowe.

10 PORTFOLIO Did you know?

Most Bay Staters (the official name for Massachusetts citizens designated in 1990) can name the black-capped chickadee as the State Bird, and the State Fish, the cod, might come readily to mind as well, but there are many other state symbols of which the average resident might be unaware. The State Flower, known as both the mayflower and ground laurel, adopted in 1918, is on the endangered list. The American elm, with widespread branches and Massachu setts State Representative William Smi tty Pig natelli; Di rector Laurie Norton M offatt; Su llivan gray bark, has been honored as our Ele men tary Sc hool teacher A nn a Sa ldo-Burke; and M assachu setts State Re presen tati ve Da nie l Bos ley ce lebrate the students be hi nd the Norma n Rockwe ll State Artist legislati on at Norman Roc kwe ll M useu m. State Tree, while blue, green, and cranberry became the official colors State Artist Norman Rockwell of the commonwealth in 2005. Over 50 Massachusetts State How a third grade class made a difference Symbols for a wide variety of by Melinda Georgeson classifications exist today. Take a guess at the following selected When third grade teacher Anna transportation to the Massachusetts symbols for Massachusetts? The Sal do-Burke, Ed.D., of the Sullivan State House, where the class was answers are below. School in North Adams began a class given the grand tour from State on Massachusetts State Symbols, she Representative Daniel Bosley, an State Beverage and her 17 students noticed that the early champion of the children's State Folk Hero Commonwealth of Massachusetts project, along with other members State Donut lacked a state artist. They took a of the Berkshire delegation. Their hard Official Reptile vote and decided to nominate work paid off. The bill was signed into Official Inventor Norman Rockwell. law in February. Official Children's Author and Illustrator She decided to involve her students As the most recent teacher to influence State Dog in a project that could connect them state history, Saldo-Burke says, 'All of Folk Song of the Commonwealth with real-world issues while also the projects I have engaged my students State Historical Rock addressing curriculum needs. The in over the last several years center tPl10lUAld :)[::JO}] Norman Rockwell Service-Learning around a belief of making a difference ~;)o}] [I~ ::JIlO~SIH ;:J ~E~S 3l1t1l118 0J1Y Aq s ~p s nq ::Jessew by adding to the good. The Norman Project became a cross-curriculum :qW;:JMlIOWWO:) ;:JLP JO :3 l1O S )[[0.':1 learning experience that touched on Rockwell proposal once again proved 131113.1 u01sOfl ::30Q ;:J~E~S many subject areas and addressed something that I firmly believe in ; that (SS 113S 'la) ]3 S13 8 ()10P03I.J.1 such topics as the right to free petition big happenings can come from little :lO~eJ ~ s nllI plie lOLpny S,1I;:J1 P[ ILO [el::J I:fJO and the power of writing a persuasive kids. I urge my students to aim high ul]~UD1d UlUlvlu3fl :101 1I;:Ji\1I I [EI ::JI:fJO 1311V8 :;;J[I1d;;J([ [EI::JI:fJO letter. The Massachusetts Department and travel far." ()~VUS pwoa UlV31:) u01sofl : ~nlloQ ;;J ~ E~S of Education awarded the "Learn P33S31Q(ly AUUI.J0j :ol;;JH )[[0.':1 ;;J l e~s and Serve America Grant" to the Melinda Georgeson is director of 3;)111j A113qUV1:) :;:J:3eJ;;Ji\;;Jg ;;J~E~S school district, a grant that paid for education at Norman Rockwell Museum. SI;:JMSUV

SUMMER 2008 11 Museum Welcomes New Trustees Norman Rockwell Museum /Jroudly welcome the following members to its board of trustees

Clarke Bailey Steven Hirsch (December 2007) is Chairman of Entertainment (June 2007) is President of Media Sales for CBS Television Distribution Company, the exclusive manufacturer and Distribution, the preeminent company in worldwide distributor of CDs and DVDs for Un iversal Music in television syndication. Mr. Hirsch is a collector of early North America and central Europe, and he serves on the 20th-century American Art focusing on social realism and boards of Iron Mountain, Inc. and ACT Teleconferencing, modernism with an interest in sculpture and WPA murals. Inc. In addition to supporting diverse funds such as Save He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Frances the Children, the Nature Conservancy and the Actors Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College. Fund, Clarke is a volunteer for Bridges for Community, an organization dedicated to building homes for George 6 Valerie Kennedy underprivileged icaraguan famil ies. (March 2008) have served on the boards of numerous cultural institutions in both Chicago, Illinois, and Williamstown, Walter 6 Mary Jo Engels Massachusetts. Mr. Kennedy is a Midwest Regional Advisory (September 2007) were National Council members prior Board Member of the Institute for International Education to joining the Board. Mr. Engels was First Vice President and serves on the boards of the Chicago Symphony, the of Smith Barney's Garden City, Long Island, New York, Lyric Opera in C hicago, and the board and Executive office before his retirement in 2005. He currently serves Committee of the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown. Mrs. as President of Nazareth Nursery, New York, New York, a Kennedy serves on the boards and Executive Committees Montessori pre-school for disadvantaged children, and is on of both the W illiamstown Theatre Festival and of the the Financial Advisory Board for the Sisters of St. Francis W illiamstown Art Conservation Center. Mr. Kennedy served of the Neumann Communities, Syracuse, New York. Mrs. as chairman and chief executive officer for Malinckrodt Engels, a retired RN, volunteered as a history interpreter at Group, Inc. and International M inerals and Chemicals, Old Bethpage Vill age Museum while raising five daughters both Fortune 250 companies. He is also a founding and volunteers as a Pastoral Care Person at Winthrop managing partner of Berkshires Capital Investors. Hospital, Mineola, New York. Duncan Pollock Mark Gold (December 2007) has been a top executive at some of the (September 2007) is an attorney with Grinnell Smith LLP country's leading marketing services agencies, where he has in Williamstown, with a focus in the areas of business created campaigns for such companies as American Express, organizations, contracts, finance, and acquisitions. General Motors, and Johnson & Johnson. As Chairman of Mr. Gold is very involved with arts and philanthropic Ammirati Puris Lintas' New York office, Mr. Pollock was organizations. He wrote "Death by Ethics" for Museum responsible for the advertising programs of 44 consumer News (Nov/Dec 2005) and was a presenter at the 2006 brands. As CEO of brand consultancy Siegel & Gale he led Annual Meeting of the American Association of Museums. many projects focused on clarifying and communicating the Mr. Gold was Chairman of the Berkshire Taconic value of corporate brands. He is a trustee of the Kent School Community Foundation, Inc. in 2004 and 2005. He is a in Kent, Connecticut, and St. Stephen's School in Rome, member of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, the Berkshire Italy, and is a member of the Connoisseurs Circle at NYU's and Massachusetts Bar Associations, and the Estate Institute of Fine Arts. Planning Council of Berkshire County.

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The Art of Norman Rockwell In Full Bloom: CURRE TLY ON VIEW Artists Design

The largest and most significant public collection of original Garden Gates works by Norman Rockwell , including a comprehensive JULY 4 THROUGH array of paintings, drawings, studies, photographs, and SEPTEMBER 7, 2008 artifacts th at reflect the evolution of th e artist's life and Celebrate th e wonder career. Rockwell's Four Freedoms, Girl at Mirror, and Triple of art and nature! This Self-Portrait, are among the Museum's extensive holdings, and rarely seen works from public and private collections are outdoor exhibition of 24 arti st-designed ga rden always on view. gates constructed of a myriad of materials will compl ement the Museum's beautiful Raw Nerve! grounds this summer. The Political Art of Steve Brodner JUNE 7 THROUGH OCTOBER 26, 2008 Over the Top: The Illustrated Posters

I n th e fi nes t trad ition Of World War I of Thomas Nast and NOVEMBER 8, 2008 T HROUGH JANUARY 25,2009 th e time-honored ar t of Durin g th e first World War, ri chly illustrated posters political satire, this special in spiring public support were created by such celebrated exh ibition anticipates illustrators as J.C. Leyend ecker, Jam es Montgomery Flagg, our nation's upcoming and Howard Chandler Christie. The works featured bold presidential elections with graphics, powerful im agery, and concise commands, stunning visual reflections encouraging a sense of nationalism and pride. Over the on the nation's most Top will provide a fascinating window to the American prominent contemporary experience during the ea rl y twentieth century. leaders and their legacies. An award-winning draftsman, commentator, Artists in Their Studios and humorist, Steve Brodner has created FEBRUARY 7 THROUGH MAY 25, 2009 illustrations, cartoons, Artists in Their Studios offers a unique glimpse at the lives and reportage for nea rl y and studio spaces of more than 75 important American every major American artists from the late nineteenth century to today. Rarely seen periodical, including The photographs and primary source materials of such artists as New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Willem deKooning, Marcel Duchamp, and Andy Warhol and The Village Voice. are featured in this compelling exhibition, whi ch offers an intimate perspective on artists at work, at home and abroad.

SUMME R 2008 13 PLANNED GIVING PROFILE: Cindy 6 Lee Williams by Michelle Gillett

change from mechanical engineer The values Rockwell 's work expresses are to Presbyterian minister. C indy and part of the reason Lee and C indy decided Lee met at Syracuse University, wh ere to make a provision for the Museum she was studying nursing and he was in their estate plans. Lee says, "as pursuing a graduate degree in urban conservators, stewards and trustees, we are planning at the M axwell School of obliged to find ways to insure that future Public Affairs following undergraduate generations have the opportunity to enjoy work at the University of Rochester. and learn from Rockwell." Lee's years T hey marri ed ri ght after coll ege and of in volvement with Norman Rockwell raised three children, Amy, Matt, and Museum gave him a clear understanding Jeanne. Lee became CEO of C ountry of the financial stress cultural institutions C urtains. He retired in 2 006 and now can experience during economic he and C indy spend seven months in downturns and changes in visitor traffic. Venice, Florida, and five months at This understanding has prompted hi m their cottage on Canandaigua Lake, to find a personal way to preserve "th is in the New Yo rk Finger Lakes region. cultural treasure." When Lee W illiams joined Country Curtains in Stockbridge in 1989, he Lee's parents and grandparents T he William s's have responded to the offered marketing help to the Old subscribed to The Saturday Evening need to build the M useum's endowment Corner House (Norman Rockwell Post, so be was famili ar with with a three-year ca mpaign pledge Museum's first home) as it developed its Rockwell's images, but his affinity and a legacy gift. Lee and C indy have mail order catalgue into a "membership for Rockwell deepened with his created a Li ving Trust, in which they builder and money maker." Norman involvement in the Museum. "I have name Norman Rockwell M useum as Rockwell Museum asked him to become sa id many times that much of the a benefi ciary. a trustee in 1990, and Lee became chair attraction for me is that Rockwell of the Marketing Committee. He is so simple and so complex at the As Lee says, Rockwell 's "artistry ranks served as president of the board from same time. Both the medium and with the best the world has seen, while 2002 to 2006. the message dimensi ons of Rockwell his visual messages are so accessible. fascinate me." The values that His art is masterful. Some of it is fu n Lee grew up outside Pittsburgh, Rockwell 's work depicts and "that and funny, some chall engi ngly serious. Pennsylvania, in a "kind of Norman define us as uniquely American : It starts conversations between parents Rockwell environment" with tolerance, patience, generosity, humor, and children; it's educati onal; it's grandparents, aunts, uncles and and patriotism," are ones Lee believes inspirational; and in so many ways it cousins close by. His wife C indy should be shared with the nation on defin es the soul of our country." moved from Syracuse, ew Yo rk, many levels, through the M useum's to New Jersey when she was in fifth collection, its traveling exhibitions, its Michelle Gillett is a trustee of the grade because of her fa ther's career publications, and on the Internet. Museum and is a fJ oet and author.

14 PORTFOLIO In Memory of David H. Wood, 1923-2008 Director of Nonnan Rockwell Museum from 1974 to 1986. by Linda Szekely Pero

O ne of the many images I have of C upcake" as David would like to say but David Wood is seeing him stride down just across the state border, close enough Main Street, Stockbridge on a brisk to drive, search, fail to find the address, winter day, his si x-footer maroon scarf and be back by lunchtime. But this was wound around his neck, greeting Karmic fun - D avid was always playing people and, as we do in small towns, practical jokes on th e staff. pets along th e way. Before becom- ing the director of Norman Rockwell David 's regard for Norman and Molly M useum in 1973, David had been Rockwell was more than a distant admira headmaster at Lenox School for Boys, tion, as he li ved in a rented apartment that a position he had assumed after teach David H. Wood poses for the 1976 Boy Sco uts was part of th e Rockwell s' South Street ing E ngli sh and theater there. O cca of America ca lendar The Sp irit of 1976. Photo by house. His opinions and th e choices he Louie La mone, July 1974. sionally, when one of us needed it, he made th at influenced exhibition, loans, would slip in a lesson in punctuation or acquisitions, and even store merchandise, grammar, something I always appreciated. His precise prose were informed by his personal acquaintance with Rock found expression in his private short stories and graced the well. I rem ember his saying, "Norman would roll over in M useum's mundane but mandatory board meeting minutes his grave!," of a parti cularl y distasteful coll ectible or a badly and activiti es reports. Som etimes, through our connecting painted homage portrait of th e arti st. He tried valiantly offices, we'd hear him furi ously typing letters to The Berk to protect Rockwell's image, and repudiated criti cs who shire Eag le editor- in response to som e inane small-town th ought of his work as kitsch. David fully knew th e mastery political imbroglio-onl y to next hear the stationery being that went into Rockwell 's painting. ripped out of the carriage (we didn't have computers th en) and crumpled into a ball. We were secretly grateful that Our staff will rem ember the wonderful C hristmas parti es when th e catharti c act ofletter writing ended, th e letter went orchestrated by David - th e punch lovingly brewed and pre into th e waste basket. sented in antique silver punch bowls, th e pine-wreathed ga l lery glowing in the candlelight of his antique silver and brass David loved antiquing. He amassed wonderful coll ections candlesti cks. As our director, David created a stimulating of Nantucket baskets, old silver cups and candlesticks. He atmosphere in the offi ces of th e M useum. His com mitment would drop everything if he received an enticing notice of and dedi cation were inspiring and contagious. He eagerl y an auction within driving distance; towns such as Kinder shared knowledge. By pitching in when anyo ne needed help hook or Austerlitz in nearby New York State, were rich with he set the example that every aspect of the day- to-day respon estate auctions of century-old homes and th eir contents. sibilities of running a museum is worthy of respect. David's David's passion for antiquing was such that one year we were emotional honesty was refr eshing; because he didn't hide his inspired to play the ultimate April Fools' Day joke on him. feelings, it gave th ose who worked with him permission not We scripted our own circular written in th e vernacular oflo to hide theirs. I am so glad to have known hi m. cal estate-aucti on notices, with objects we knew he couldn't resist inserted judiciously into th e listing of antique furniture David H. Wood, 84, died February 22,2008, at Nantucket and bric-a-brac, and mail ed it to him. We weren't completely Cottage Hospital after a period of failing health. Mr. Wood mercil ess. The fi ctitious auction wasn't all th e way in "East was bom on Nantucket 071 March 4, 1923-

SUMMER 2008 15 A Very Special Place for Your Event

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