STOCKBRIDGE - Norman Rockwell Museum has received a $100,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to fund the publication of the first catalog of the museum's permanent collection.
"American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell" will provide a comprehensive history and overview of the museum's extensive holdings of original art and archival materials. A spokesman for the foundation recognizes the catalog as "a timely and valuable contribution to the study of American art."
The museum holds the world's largest and most significant collection of original art by American illustrator Norman Rockwell. It collects, preserves, interprets, and provides access to an extensive archive containing the artist's papers, fan mail, photographic references, and published first uses of works. The publication of "American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell" will accompany an extensive national touring exhibition of Rockwell's work to begin in this fall.
The American Art Program of the Henry Luce Foundation addresses the need for art museums to enhance public knowledge and deepen scholarship on American art. Established in the early 1980s at a time when there was a dearth of funding for American art, today the foundation supports scholarly exhibitions and publications that contribute significantly to the study of the nation's treasures.
The museum is dedicated to art appreciation and education through new scholarship that illuminates Rockwell's contributions to art, society and popular culture. As a center devoted to the art of illustration, the museum also exhibits the works of contemporary and past masters in an ongoing series of artist showcases. Previous exhibitions have presented the work of Frederic Remington, Charles Schulz, Winslow Homer, Howard Pyle, J.C. Leyendecker, Maxfield Parrish, Rockwell Kent, Al Hirschfeld, Robert Weaver, David Macaulay, James Gurney and others.
The museum is open daily from 10 to 5 through October. Admission is $12.50 for adults, $7 for students, and free for visitors 18 and under (five per adult). Kids Free Every Day is a gift to families from Country Curtains and the Red Lion Inn. Gallery tours are available daily, beginning on the hour. Rockwell's studio, located on the grounds, is open May through October.
For more information, call 413-298-4100, Ext. 220, or visit www.nrm.org
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A fire gutted the longtime Wahconah Street supermarket in 2023, and the following year, Zhu purchased the property for $460,000 two years ago to build a restaurant with hibachi in the existing footprint of the more than 100-year-old building.
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He noted that, looking at the site plan, there is very little room to do so. A mirror will be installed near the sharp turn on Bel Air Avenue to alleviate traffic concerns.
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