Salute to Norman Rockwell
By Richard N. Gregg
About the author:
At the time of writing of this essay, Richard N. Gregg was Director at the Allentown Art Museum, Allentown Pennsylvania.
Resource Library editor's note:
This 1976 essay was previously published by Allentown Art Museum in the illustrated catalogue for the exhibition Salute to Norman Rockwell held November 20 through January 2, 1977 at the Museum. Library of Congress Card Number 76-40831.
Resource Library wishes to extend appreciation to Ms. Shana Herb and Ms. Jill Tominosky of the Allentown Art Museum, for their help concerning the above text.
This essay is reprinted with permission of the Allentown Art Museum.. If you have questions or comments regarding the essay please contact the Allentown Art Museum directly through either this phone number or web address:
Read more articles and essays concerning this institutional source by visiting the sub-index page for the Allentown Art Museum. in Resource Library.
RL readers may enjoy these additional articles and essays:
Norman Rockwell: Celebrating America; essay by Susan Kay Crawford and Mark Hunt (12/16/04)
Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms: Paintings That Inspired a Nation (4/1/04)
Norman Rockwell Image Promotes French Museum Exhibit (3/19/04)
Norman Rockwell and the Art of Medicine (7/6/03)
Freedom: Norman Rockwell's Vermont Years (5/22/03)
Toast of the Town: Norman Rockwell and the Artists of New Rochelle (8/28/02)
Norman Rockwell Lithographs from the Powers Collection, Cheney, Washington (2/20/02)
Norman Rockwell: Drawing The American Dream (12/12/01)
Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People (3/22/01)
The Spirit of Christmas: Rockwell Paintings from the Hallmark Collection (11/12/00)
322 Norman Rockwell Covers (9/18/00)
Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People (2/22/00)
Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People (rev.11/22/99)
Cover Story -- Norman Rockwell's America (7/6/99)
Hooray for Rockwell's Hollywood (6/12/99)
Norman Rockwell: Drawing the American Dream (7/28/98)
Norman Rockwell: Drawing the American Dream (6/28/98)
Norman Rockwell Comes to Albany (8/97)
Family Ties: Rockwell's Art for Family, Friends and Fun (1997)
See images in Rockwell and Csatari: Boy Scout Calendar Artists in the Scouters Pages web site; Scouting By Norman Rockwell [anonymous web site]; scouting-related stamps in Norman Rockwell, by Frederick Oppliger from the Scouts on Stamps Society International web site, and Norman Rockwell Boy Scout Paintings in the Troop 764 web site. Curtis Publishing provides an image of the 1953 Post cover Walking to Church on its web site which the authors compare to the 1968 painting Scouting is Outing.
See also these additional articles and essays on illustration:
American Illustration from the Collection of the Delaware Art Museum (7/12/03)
The Art of National Geographic: A Century of Illustration (9/30/00)
A Backward Glance at Arizona Highways Illustrators (4/14/00)
Three Illustrators: Works by Published Bay Area Artists (10/30/99)
Visual Solutions: Seven Illustrators & the Creative Process (9/17/98)
The Art of Enchantment: Children's Book Illustrators (10/10/97)
Purr... Illustrators of children's books brag about their cats
From The Art Bulletin:
Norman Rockwell and the fashioning of American masculinity (esaay) by Eric J. Segal
For your further enjoyment and pleasure, shown below is
an artwork by the artist noted above that may not have been included in
the referenced exhibit. The imag was sourced from Wikimedia Commons. Another
source readers may find helpful is Google Images.
(above: Norman Rockwell, Ours to Fight For - Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, Freedom from Fear,
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