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THE NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM at Stockbridge a Message Frolll the Director www.normanrockwellmuseum.org THE NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM at Stockbridge A Message FrOlll the Director W hat an exciting summer we anticipate Hoving, director emeritus of the Metro­ at the Norman Rockwell Museum. We politan Museum in New York, and cura­ are launching one of the most innovative tor Constance Martin spoke at the arts initiatives in the nation-KIDS opening on June 24 (see page 4). We FREE!, sponsored by the Cain Brothers are grateful to R.R. Donnelley & Sons Foundation. This will make the museum Company, publisher of Kent's Moby experience more affordable for families Dick, for their partial sponsorship of this and introduce the next generation to art. exhibition. Fees for school-group visits, vacation week classes and camp groups will con­ Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the tinue to help support the museum's American People continues its exciting commitment to education. tour across the country. The I invite you to experience the new look exhibition is at the Corcoran Gallery of of the museum's main galleries. Our This summer, see the haunting Arctic Art in our nation's capital from June 17 permanent collection is on view in and wilderness landscapes of another through September 24. Opening festivi­ the stunningly redesigned Fitzpatrick important American artist, Rockwell ties were highlighted by Peter Rockwell's Family and Lehman Brothers Found­ Kent (1882-1971). Kent was an artist appearance at the National Press Club ation galleries. Our current Rockwell of extraordinary drive, talent and versa­ on June 20th. The exhibit not only exhibition, In Rockwell We Trust, will tility, whose singular vision led him to pleased the record breaking crowds at the remain on exhibit until August 27th. produce some of the most powerful High Museum of Art and the Chicago Organized by Linda Pero, curator of images of early American modernism. Historical Society, it also has received the Norman Rockwell Collections, the Distant Shores: The Odyssey of critical acclaim by the art and news exhibition documents Rockwell's Rockwell Kent, organized by the Norman media, giving Norman Rockwell, for the prominent role in advertising, both as Rockwell Museum and curated by first time, the long-awaited recognition an illustrator and as a celebrity Constance Martin, is devoted to Kent's that he deserves as an important spokesperson. dramatic wilderness images. Thomas American artist (see page 14). Summer is here! Norman Rockwell's The Norman Rockwell Museum studio is open for the season. Stroll BOARD OF TRUSTEES The Portfolio the beautiful grounds where you will Bobbie Crosby President Volume 17, Number 2, Summer 2000 Perri Petricca First Vice·PresidelJt Kim berl y Rawson, Project Manager find artists sketching, children climb­ Lee Williams Second Vice·Presidelll Cri s Raymond, Edi tor Steven Spielberg Third Vice· President Susa n Cobb Merchant, Designer ing the sculptures and families pic­ James W. Ireland Treasnrer nicking; linger over the bucolic view of Roselle Kline Chartock Clerk The Portfolio is published four tim es a yea r by Ann Fitzpatrick Brown Harvey Chet Krentzma n The No rman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge, the Housatonic River; or visit the Will iam M. Bulger Robert F. McDe rm ott Inc., an d is se nt free to all members. Daniel M. Cain John C. (Hans) Mo rris museum at: Jan Cohn Barbara Ness im © 2000 by the Norman Rockwell Museum at James A. Cunni ngham, Jr. Bri an J. Quinn Stockbr idge. All rights rese rved www.normanrockwellmuseum.org, Catherine B. Deely J.M. Salvadore where you now can shop on-line at Michell e Gi ll ett Mark Selkowitz Elaine S. Gunn Aso Tav itian The Norman Rockwell Museum is fun ded in our NRM web store. Whether you David L. Klausmeyer Richard B. Wilcox part by the Massac husetts Cultural Co un cil, a Luisa Kreisberg Jamie Williamson state age ncy that supports pu bl ic programs in drop by or click in, an enjoyable time TRUSTEES EMERITI the arts, hu ma niti es and sciences. awaits you. Lila Wilde Berle John M. Deely, Jr Jane P. Fitzpatrick La urie Norton Moffa tt, Norma G. Ogden Directo r Henry H. Williams, Jr. Cover: Gree nlanders and Dogs at Sea, 1932-1935, oil a ll panel. Collect ion of lall1ie Wyeth. Reprodll ced with permission from The Rockwell Ken t Legacies. Laurie Norton Moffatt On April 15, the Norman Rockwell and share with young people our Museum celebrated the inaugura­ appreciation of Rockwell's view of tion of KIDS FREE! This program American life." enables young people (ages 18 and under, who are accompanied by an KIDS FREE! is the latest in a series GIFTS THAT GROW adult) to visit the museum free of of initiatives by the Norman charge. This new museum benefit Rockwell Museum to augment its There are many ways to show your was made possible by the Cain strong commitment to education support for the Norman Rockwell Brothers Foundation. and programming. Laurie Norton Museum through your gifts. Every Moffatt, director of the museum, KIDS FREE! was said, "Thanks to gift. no matter what the size, is created to give the generosity significant and appreCiated. families the incen­ and vision of tive to explore how Cain Brothers Your membership gift may be doubled the art of illustra­ Foundation, more or even tripled when it is matched by tion can ignite the young people will your employer. When you send us a imagination and have the opportu­ matching gift from your company's engage the mind. nity to learn Human Resource department, you Daniel Cain, a about Norman can sit back and watch your gift grow. Norman Rockwell Rockwell's unique For membership information, please Museum trustee, is contributions to log on at: president and CEO art and society. www.normanrockwellmuseum.org of Cain Brothers, an investment People of all ages find humor, rele­ banking firm in New York City. vance and inspiration in the art at Concerning the foundation's gift, he the Norman Rockwell Museum. We commented, "Our goal is to build a are thrilled to offer our visitors this future constituency for the museum opportunity to experience and share the museum with the children in their lives." 3 ROCKWELL KENT Rediscovered or Rockwell Kent admirers, the Kent's attraction to the wilderness and northeastern United States is the place his extraordinary art inspired by the to be during the summer and fall of beauty of the North and the 2000. The artist's life and work are Adirondacks are further examined in the subject of three exhibitions, two two important exhibition cata­ new publications and a major four­ logues. Distant Shores: The Odyssey day symposium. of Rockwell Kent, published by the University of California Press in con­ Distant Shores: The Odyssey of Rockwelli junction with the Norman Rockwell Kent, on view at the Norman Rockwell i Museum and Chameleon Press (hard Museum through October 29, 2000, l cover $45.00, members $41.50; paper­ examines Kent as an artist/explorer ~ back $24.95, members $22.45). The whose adventures to remote areas ! catalogue features more than 50 color inspired an art of deep spiritual beauty. plates and essays by Constance Its Me O'Lord, Self Portrait, 1934, lithograph. More than 90 paintings, watercolors, Martin, curator at the Arctic Institute Print Collection. Miriam and Ira D. Wallach drawings and prints from many muse­ Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. of North America, University of ums and private collections, including The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox Calgary, Alberta, and guest curator of seven paintings from the State and Tilden Foundations. Distant Shores, and Richard V. West, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, are in the exhibi­ director of the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, and tion. At the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, author of the upcoming Kent catalogue raisonne. The New York, The View from Asgaard: Rockwell Kent's View from Asgaard: Rockwell Kent's Adirondack Legacy, Adirondack Legacy (June 14-0ctober 15,2000) explores published by the Adirondack Museum (paperback the artist's life and diverse artistic creativity through artwork $26.70; members $22.69), is written by the exhibition's inspired by the Adirondack wilderness and the artist's home co-curators, Caroline M. Welsh, chief curator at the and farm named Asgaard, which in Norse mythology was the Adirondack Museum, and Scott R. Ferris, noted Kent home of the gods. Kent's commercial work is the focus scholar and author, and is extensively illustrated. Both in Commercialism and Realism: Rockwell Kent-Bringing publications, as well as an exhibition poster designed by Art to Advertising, the first exhibition to comprehensively illustrator Wendell Minor and other items related to the review Kent's work in the advertising realm, on view exhibition, are available at the Norman Rockwell through December 2000 at the Plattsburgh State Art Mus­ Museum store at 1-800-742-9450 or through our website: eum, State University of New York, Plattsburgh, New York. www.normanrockwellmuseum.org 4 Constance Martin, guest curator of Distant Shores, discussed the background work of bringing this monu­ ROCKWELL KENT mental exhibition together. Adirondack Museum for $100 per day. Participants may regis­ Thursday evening and ter for all venues or for single days. Friday, September 14-15, For further information, call 413- ending with a full-day 298-4100, ext. 220. program at the Norman Rockwell Museum on A major four-day symposium, Saturday, September 16th. More than Rockwell Kent Rediscovered, will be twenty scholars, curators and writers hosted by all three museums from will make presentations on all September 13-16,2000. Beginning at aspects of this remarkable artist's the Plattsburgh State Art Museum on career.
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