Partners’ Exhibitions
This listing includes exhibits at Rockwell Center partner’s institutions and exhibits partner institutions are traveling around the country.
On Assignment: American Illustration 1850 – 1950
Delaware Art Museum
March 6, 2010 – January 2, 2011
Classical literature, romantic best-sellers, cowboy adventures, historical fiction, frothy short stories about high society—all these and many more were the assignment of the working illustrator during a century of profound cultural change. Illustrations captured telling moments of the written narrative, and individual illustrators were often sought out by editors and recognized by readers.
Eric Carle: Prints and Papers
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
April 2 – September 5, 2010
Complementing the woodcuts of Antonio Frasconi on exhibit in the East Gallery, this exhibition explores some of Eric Carle’s early printmaking. From his days in advertising, Eric employed linoleum cuts among other media to achieve a visual variety. Some of his first books in which he used the lino-cut technique reflect his emphasis on bold shape and design so associated with his collage technique, albeit without the color. Work from his early and later books are shown together in a thematically and stylistically connected display.
Norman Rockwell and the Boy Scouts of America
Norman Rockwell Musem
July 3 through October 31, 2010
Though Norman Rockwell is often identified with home town life in New England, he was a frequent visitor to California, and was called upon by Hollywood to create imagery for posters advertising entertaining feature films of his day.
This installation exploring Rockwell’s art for the movies features original paintings, vintage posters, lobby cards, and original portraits of movie stars drawn form the Museum’s Art and Archival Collections and private collections of Rockwell’s art. The Magnificent Ambersons (1941), The Song of Bernadette (1943), Along Came Jones (1945), The Razor’s Edge (1946), Cinderfella (1960) and the 1966 remake of the classic, Stagecoach, are among the films the artist branded with his signature style of realism and narration.
Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg
American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution
July 2, 2010 – January 2, 2011
Two of America’s best-known modern filmmakers—George Lucas and Steven Spielberg—recognized a kindred spirit in the artist Norman Rockwell and formed significant collections of his work. Lucas, Spielberg and Rockwell have perpetuated American ideals about love of country, personal honor, and the value of family through their work. With humor and pathos, they have transformed ordinary people and the quotidian incidents of everyday experience into stories that show us our better selves and the values that have sustained Americans through good times and bad. All three share an ability to communicate visually with mass audiences using popular media of their time. Telling Stories is the first major exhibition to explore in-depth the connections between Rockwell’s iconic images of American life and the movies.