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Portrait of America: Remembering Norman Rockwell

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    Great paintings that illustrated Americana

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-- -- makes me feel good with that.

One can't help but feel warm and Fuzzy all over when looking at a Norman Rockwell painting.

There's no one that could have translated American culture on the campus like.

Norman Rockwell but he didn't like yeah -- joining us -- the director of the Norman Rockwell Museum up in Massachusetts -- Norton market.

-- -- Mike great to be here would just get started right over there because it snowed last night in New York City you know great snow appease.

Well this is the village of Stockbridge Massachusetts -- Norman Rockwell lived the last 25 years of his life and Wear them Norman Rockwell Museum is located.

And then right next -- that IE.

I don't delude itself worker is that greater went with a pipe in his mouth the so fortunate -- so many stories most artists did make a self portrait to.

Record themselves but to a new look coming -- you see the artists that Norman Rockwell admired Rembrandt to stop on the left corner man -- door.

And he makes a nod to the modernist painters Picasso and van go home he also admired.

And what's the one right behind you.

Behind -- is a picture that I think is emblematic of what Norman Rockwell stood for his great humanitarian painting the golden rule.

And and it he.

Tells us.

-- do unto others as you would have them do unto you when he shows people of all faiths all cultures all races -- -- -- at him.

He is not you know painting.

That is -- -- that was a friend of his and Vermont where you lived at the time okay look at this and over here.

One of my favorites -- you -- taste the Turkey this is the quintessential.

Thanksgiving piece that was actually done for -- very serious purpose during World War II to articulate president Roosevelt's four freedoms which were freedom of speech freedom from want.

Freedom from fear and freedom to were -- And these were the reasons America went -- to war to preserve these freedoms for people all over the world and -- he also made statements to look at this.

Yes after -- -- Ron -- stopped working for the Saturday evening post where he had done 321.

Magazine covers throughout your lifetime he went to work for a look magazine.

The subject matter changed greatly and he started painting the current events of the day and did some very important civil rights movement paintings.

This young girl and is walking to school protected by the US marshals.

Integrating the first.

Elementary school in New Orleans -- and ruby bridges as the young girl who inspired that painting.

And this -- and helped bridge the great divide and difficult times that the country was going through at that time that's for sure many are -- -- he had a sense of humor.

No question check of the Super Bowl Sunday soon enough anyway that we had to and other properties.

This is so much fun it's part of the four seasons calendars and you see these -- death tumbling Norman Rockwell painted somewhat autobiographical -- that he was not athletic -- love to -- you know one of the greatest artists of our time.

And it and he shows these boys have a great deal of fun he would have been 119119.

Today today.

Well -- -- -- is this exhibit I mean these are.

Duplicates of the real thing of course -- This traveling around the -- -- we have an exhibition of -- collection American chronicles traveling around the country it's closing in Sacramento California area day.

And it's going onto the new Crystal Bridges museum -- that how do we -- is -- on our website WWW.

And RM.

Dot ORG where it used to be my pleasure and I wouldn't and a and -- -- something.

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