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Norman Rockwell’s Exceptional Drawings, Revealed for the First Time

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford December 27, 2022January 24, 2023

Extensively illustrated, Norman Rockwell: Drawings, 1911–1976 is the first book dedicated to the artist’s prolific but largely private drawing practice.

Posted inOpinion

Stop Treating the Berkshire Museum as a Sacred Space for Masterpieces

by Christopher Marcisz April 13, 2018April 13, 2018

Locals like me don’t visit the Berkshire Museum to look at famous paintings. Why did 40 artworks become the center of a national controversy?

The Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts (photo by Protophobic, via Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inNews

Berkshire Museum Resolves Dispute with Norman Rockwell’s Sons, But Legal Battle Rages On

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton February 20, 2018

Museum leaders and the Massachusetts Attorney General reached an agreement to keep Norman Rockwell’s “Shuffleton’s Barbershop” on public display, but opponents of the sale are petitioning the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

The Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts (photo courtesy Berkshire Museum, via Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inNews

Last-Minute Appeal Tries to Halt Berkshire Museum Art Auction [UPDATED]

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton November 10, 2017November 13, 2017

On Friday, the AG’s office filed an appeal seeking a last-minute injunction to stop Monday’s auction of works from the Berkshire Museum collection at Sotheby’s.

Posted inNews

Judge Green-Lights Berkshire Museum’s Sale of Most Valuable Works in Collection

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton November 7, 2017November 7, 2017

Today, Berkshire Superior Court Judge John Agostini ruled that the museum could auction off many of the most valuable works in its collection.

The Berkshire Museum (photo by AlexiusHoratius, via Wikimedia Commons)
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The Berserk Battle Over the Berkshire Museum and Its Art Collection

by Felix Salmon November 2, 2017November 2, 2017

This week, the state’s attorney general called for a temporary restraining order to block Sotheby’s from selling works from the museum’s collection.

Posted inArt

Rescuing Norman Rockwell’s Progressive Legacy from a Right-Wing Cartoonist

by Angus Johnston February 17, 2017February 16, 2017

The artist was no reactionary. He was a staunch liberal and a strong believer in an inclusive country.

Posted inNews

Right-wing Cartoonist Inserts Betsy DeVos into Iconic Civil Rights Painting

by Jillian Steinhauer February 14, 2017February 16, 2017

Glenn McCoy appropriated Norman Rockwell’s “The Problem We All Live With,” replacing the six-year-old black girl who desegregated a public school with the billionaire Secretary of Education.

Posted inArt

How Cold War Politics Sabotaged Norman Rockwell’s Art

by Rob Colvin October 18, 2016October 18, 2016

An exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum tracking the drop and resurgence in popularity of narrative art raises much bigger questions than it set out to address.

Posted inNews

50,000 of Norman Rockwell’s Photographs Digitized

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton October 31, 2014October 31, 2014

Norman Rockwell may be best known for his Saturday Evening Post cover illustrations and homey paintings of idealized Anytown, USA scenes, but in terms of sheer numbers he was primarily a photographer.

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How to Talk About Norman Rockwell

by Cat Weaver April 8, 2014August 5, 2021

You must, and shall, begin every single conversation about Norman Rockwell by addressing the question: “Is it art?” And then you must, and shall, say: “It is illustration.”

Posted inNews

Norman Rockwell’s Family Doesn’t Want You to Think He Was Gay

by Alicia Eler December 3, 2013December 3, 2013

Former New York Times columnist Deborah Solomon’s new biography of Norman Rockwell, American Mirror, hints that America’s “most beloved artist” may have been a closeted gay man.

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