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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

There is a truly great collection of Norman Rockwell paintings in a specially built gallery in the National Museum of Scouting at the HQ of the Boy Scouts of America in Irving Texas


94 posted on 10/30/2011 7:06:00 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ..posted from the great river road)
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To: bert

Norman Rockwell got his start as the art editor of Boy’s Life, and though he soon left, he had a warm relationship with the Boy Scouts for the rest of his life. Some of his Boy’s Life works are on exhibit at the the Rockwell Museum. There is a small room where two hallways cross, with each corner cut at 45 degrees, from which hang the original four freedoms, four of my least favorite Rockwell drawings.

They were obvious propaganda and weak examples of his craft. (BTW, the Latin word “ars” -gentive singular “artis - translates just as well as craft as art.) He was swing for the fences and hit a single, imho. His best work was his more mature and spontaneous stuff. Incidently, some of the docents at the museum were his models or people who knew him personally.


112 posted on 10/30/2011 7:38:13 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ceterum autem censeo, Obama delenda est.)
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