BGuthrie Photos: MA -- Stockbridge -- Norman Rockwell Museum -- Downstairs Area (Saturday Evening Post cover tear sheets plus some extra pieces)

MA -- Stockbridge -- Norman Rockwell Museum -- Downstairs Area (Saturday Evening Post cover tear sheets plus some extra pieces):

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Description of Pictures: Norman Rockwell’S 323 “Saturday Evening Post” Covers
For nearly 50 years, millions of Americans brought Norman Rockwell’s art into their homes, enjoying the artist’s Saturday Evening Post covers while seated in their favorite chairs, surrounded by their belongings in the company of their families. This intimate connection with Rockwell’s art made his images a part of the fabric of American lives. This comprehensive exhibition of original Saturday Evening Post cover tear sheets features each of Norman Rockwell’s illustrations for the publication, created between 1916 and 1963.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. NRMDWN_190808_004.JPG: Norman Rockwell Land of Enchantment (Robin Hood)
2. NRMDWN_190808_010.JPG: Norman Rockwell Land of Enchantment, 1934
3. NRMDWN_190808_016.JPG: Norman Rockwell The Boy Who Put the World on Wheels (The Inventor)
4. NRMDWN_190808_030.JPG: Norman Rockwell Just Married (After the Honeymoon)
5. NRMDWN_190808_036.JPG: Norman Rockwell Mermaid
6. NRMDWN_190808_042.JPG: Norman Rockwell The Jewelry Shop, c 1955
7. NRMDWN_190808_052.JPG: Norman Rockwell Waiting for the Art Editor
8. NRMDWN_190808_061.JPG: Norman Rockwell Paul Bunyan Woodcutter
9. NRMDWN_190808_091.JPG: Norman Rockwell Murder Mystery, 1948 Preliminary drawing intended as a cover for The Saturday Evening Post Pencil and charcoal on paper Private Collection A murder mystery for a Post cover. It was, I thought, punning badly, a killer. I'd show a murdered man surrounded by his friends and relatives, one of whom had done him in. The clues to the solution would be present in the picture and Post readers would be asked to solve the crime.-Norman Rockwell In the fall of 1948, Norman Rockwell presented to Saturday Evening Post editors an idea-sketch similar to this one, with the addition in the lower right corner of a Sherlock Holmesian head and the inscription "Who Dun it?" The sketch approved, Rockwell began researching poisons, contacting poison authority Brainerd Mears of Williams College, just forty miles south of his Vermont home. Mears recommended the juice of an African plant. "Boiled," he said, "a single drop is deadly." Rockwell flew to Los Angeles to borrow the plant from Twentieth Century-Fox's prop department, which warned him not to "leave it around." They didn't want to be blamed if it was used to "do away with somebody." Rockwell next met with the Fox public relations department to discuss the possibility of actors modeling for him. "It's a parody of an English murder mystery," he said. "The scene's a castle. There's an old lady who owns the castle." After hearing the description, the public relations team suggested Ethel Barrymore as the old lady, Boris Karloff as the sinister chef, Linda Darnell as the scandalous actress, Loretta Young as the demure maid, Richard Widmark as the wastrel holding the riding crop, Clifton Webb as the haughty butler, and Lassie as the dog. The legs and feet would be posed for by Van Johnson's. With permissions secured, Rockwell began posing and photographing the actors. He had met Ethel Barrymore earlier when, as an eighth-grader earning money for art school, he had taken her and a friend on a sketching trip. After reminiscing she asked, "Tell me, Mr. Rockwell, Whom have I murdered?" When he answered "Van Johnson," she replied, "Superb. I have always wanted to murder that boy." Seeing Rockwell's final drawing, Post editors felt that "not one reader in a thousand would be able to figure out the correct answer." They called in members of the staff, one by one, and asked them to study the drawing carefully and give their solution. "Not one came within miles of the proper answer." In the end, Rockwell admitted the editors were right. In addition to readers being distracted by trying to identify all the movie stars, the broken teacup and the plant were slim clues to figuring out that the old lady had brewed the tea.
10. NRMDWN_190808_109.JPG: The Saturday Evening Post
11. NRMDWN_190808_114.JPG: 1916-1919 Most of Rockwell's covers from 1916-1919 depict youths, mainly cheerful boys at play. These images influenced and were influenced by great shifts in social and cultural altitudes toward children and teenagers. Children had more leisure time than ever before and were no longer treated as little men and women. Instead, educators, psychologists, and advertisers encouraged parents to cherish their children's early years and indulge their need for play and fun.
12. NRMDWN_190808_130.JPG: 1920-1929 "A boy perched on a weathervane gazing over the rooftops out to sea; an old man playing a cello while a little girl dances; a young couple spooning in a buggy; and dogs, dog everywhere... You could do that sort of stuff in the twenties -- even in the thirties. People liked it... They accepted the simple, innocent view of life and enjoyed it and so did I." -- Norman Rockwell
13. NRMDWN_190808_181.JPG: 1930-1939 Rockwell did not paint the poverty and despair of the Great Depression. Like the films of the period, his images feature fantasy, adventure, and the distant past. Movies, music, romance, sports, and travel are among Rockwell's favorite subjects from 1930 to 1939.
14. NRMDWN_190808_233.JPG: 1940-1949 During World War II, Rockwell created what became archetypal images of the home front, and afterward he chronicled the nation's return to peace. Rockwell's enlisted man, Willie Gillis, was one of the most popular creations in the time period. From the draft call to college on the G.I. Bill, Willie reflected the experience of the sons, brothers, and husbands of many Post readers. In the last half of the decade, Rockwell focused on the social and technological changes that ushered in the postwar era.
15. NRMDWN_190808_327.JPG: 1950-1959 Rockwell continued to document the postwar baby boom with images of family life. As in the early decades of his career, he often focused on children and young people and brought a sympathetic understanding to their rites of passage. In the 1950s, Rockwell was asked to create portraits of presidential candidates and other celebrities.
16. NRMDWN_190808_412.JPG: 1960-1963 In the early 1960s, television eroded the market and advertising base for magazines such as The Post. Most photographic covers resulted in fewer opportunities for the storytelling illustrations Rockwell loved to do; seven of Rockwell's final twelve Post covers are celebrity portraits. Rockwell was unhappy with is last assignments for the magazine and became more interesting in covering contemporary issues. In 1963, after forty-seven years, Rockwell left the Post. In January 1964, Rockwell's first illustration for Look appeared, signaling the start of a new era for the artist.
17. NRMDWN_190808_445.JPG: In memoriam cover after JFK's assassination
18. NRMDWN_190808_455.JPG: Our sincere thanks to John A. and Laura C. Savio for their generous donation of the 323 Saturday Evening Post magazines in this exhibition. Their donation and support have made this exhibition possible.
Wikipedia Description: Norman Rockwell Museum
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The Norman Rockwell Museum is an art museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, dedicated to the art of Norman Rockwell. It is home to the world's largest collection of original Rockwell art.

History

The museum was founded in 1969 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where Rockwell lived the last 25 years of his life. Originally located on Main Street in a building known as the Old Corner House, the museum moved to its current location 24 years later, opening to the public on April 3, 1993. The current museum building was designed by Robert A. M. Stern.
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