Spring 1998 - Norman Rockwell Museum

!l!T"~)\-'7, ~T"~~iIfr~ ... tIf:I:I. tJ7?"-sJ~ 1iHighlights from the CollectioD of The Norman Rock. ell Mu,eum~Above, Home for Christmas, a 1955 Schaeffer pen-penciladvertisement is one of the paintings that promoted theexhibition with posters on billboards and subways. Aboveright, among the guests at the Isetan Museum enjoyingthe original Rockwell paintings, are two young ladieswho seem to be studying the American rite of marriageas depicted in the 1955 Saturday Evening Post cover,The Marriage License.Rockwell in JapanDECEMBER 4, 1997, HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE COLLECTIONof the Norman Rockwell Museum opened in Tokyo. Hereare photographs from the opening at the Isetan Museum,and one of the posters used to advertise the exhibition.After Tokyo, the exhibit traveled to Nagoya, Chiba,Niigata, Osaka and Hiroshima.Right, Linda Szekely,NRM AssistantCurator; TomomiTanikawa of BrainTrust, Inc.; JosephineNieuwenhuis, NRMProject Registrar; andYuko Toyota, also ofBrain Trust, Inc.,enjoy the successfulopening. Linda andJosephine courieredthe artwork to Japanwhere they weregraciously assisted byMs. Tanikawa andMs. Toyota.Below, Norman Rockwell Museum BoardPresident, David Klausmeyer and DirectorLaurie Norton Moffatt attend the openingreception with Takeshi Matsumoto,Director of the Chihiro Iwasaki Museum ofPicture Books; Josephine Nieuwenhuis,NRM Project Registrar; Linda Szekely,NRM Assistant Curator; and MasahikoShibata, President of Brain Trust, Inc., thesponsor of the exhibition.Museum DirectorLaurie NortonMoffatt is seen hereat the opening withPeter J. Kovach,Counselor forCultural Affairs atthe Embassy of theUnited States.