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National Museum Of American Illustration E-News - February 17, 2023

Arts and Entertainment

February 20, 2023

From: National Museum Of American Illustration

NMAI Director
Judy Goffman Cutler
to Lecture at
the Elliott Museum in Stuart, Florida on
March 2nd

Judy Goffman Cutler at the opening of Norman Rockwell and His Mentor, J.C. Leyendecker at the Elliott Museum

On March 2nd, NMAI Director, Judy Goffman Cutler, will give a lecture at the Elliott Museum in Stuart, Florida, in conjunction with the traveling exhibition Norman Rockwell and His Mentor, J.C. Leyendecker.

For more information on the lectures at the Elliott Museum, and to purchase tickets to Judy's lecture, please CLICK HERE.

Visitor at the opening of Norman Rockwell and His Mentor, J.C. Leyendecker at the Elliott Museum

Judy will discuss the careers of Leyendecker and Rockwell as two of America's greatest illustrators.

For more information on the lectures at the Elliott Museum, and to purchase tickets to Judy's lecture, please CLICK HERE.

Visitors at the opening of Norman Rockwell and His Mentor, J.C. Leyendecker at the Elliott Museum

On View:
Norman Rockwell and His Mentor, J.C. Leyendecker
at the Elliott Museum in
Stuart, Florida

Left: J.C. Leyendecker (1870-1951), Spring Commuter, 1916, oil on canvas, 28" x 20"

Saturday Evening Post, May 6, 1916 cover

Right: Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Threading the Needle, 1922, oil on canvas, 25 1/2" x 20 1/2"

Saturday Evening Post, April 8, 1922 cover

On view now until March 3rd, visit our traveling exhibition,
Norman Rockwell and His Mentor, J.C. Leyendecker,
at the Elliott Museum in Stuart, Florida.

The exhibition includes 20 original works of art - 10 by Norman Rockwell and
10 by J.C. Leyendecker - along with the complete collection of each artist's vintage
Saturday Evening Post covers - 323 by Rockwell and 322 by Leyendecker.
The magazine covers range from 1899 through 1963, giving an interesting
visual history of the United States through an everchanging time.
Major events such as both World Wars, the Great Depression, and 16 presidential terms, as well as timeless scenes of family life and childhood, are represented.

For visiting infomation, please visit the Elliott Museum's
website by CLICKING HERE.