Curator Tour – Norman Rockwell: At Home in Vermont
Unidentified photographer, Untitled [Norman Rockwell painting The Craftsman], ca. 1963. Photograph, 10 x 8 1/8 in. Vermont GraniteMuseum.2021.74.512.
Join Carolyn Bauer, Marna and Chuck Davis, Curator of American Art, for a guided tour of the exhibition, Norman Rockwell: At Home in Vermont, which explores how America’s beloved illustrator Norman Rockwell (1894–1978) crafted an idealized vision of Vermont—nostalgic, resilient, and mythic—during his most prolific years in Arlington (1939–1953). In his works, Rockwell offered a nation battered by the Great Depression and weathering World War II a reassuring image of American life: orderly, self-reliant, and picturesque. As Arlington-based author Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879–1958) wrote, “Most Americans are afraid of poverty or social inferiority or change or politics…but it is true [that in Vermont] a whole stateful of people have no ground for apprehension.”
Limited to 20 participants.