Norman Rockwell’s Home for the Holidays at MOHAI
You can make your picture perfect holidays last just a little bit longer with a visit to the Museum of History and Industry’s (MOHAI) Norman Rockwell’s “Home for the Holidays” exhibit.
The exhibit showcases 40 Saturday Evening Post covers done by Rockwell, including some of his most popular images, and is on loan from the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Rockwell’s first Post cover was “Boy with Baby Carriage” in 1916. His most well known pieces are probably “Rose the Riveter” and his “Four Freedoms” series which was inspired by a speech by Franklin Roosevelt. The “Four Freedoms” series was later used to promote war bonds. Rockwell is also well known for his holiday covers depicting a kinder, gentler era. Over his 47-year association with the Post he published 321 covers. He later went on to work for Look Magazine.
Most of Rockwell’s work is whimsical and playful, and many critics and art historians do not consider him a “serious” artist. Nonetheless, his appeal is widespread, his work recognizable, and he is one of the best-known illustrators in history.
Location: 2700 24th Avenue East, south of Husky Stadium off the Montlake Bridge.
Hours: Daily 10 am-5 pm, and the first Thursday of every month 10 am-8 pm. The Rockwell exhibit runs through January 15th, 2007.
Admission: $7 adults; $5 seniors (62+) and youth (ages 5-17); free for pre-schoolers. Admission is free for everyone on the first Thursday of the month.
Photo credit: flickr
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Norman is extraodinary in his paintings and ideas. i hope this exibit does well.