Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge

What an excellent visit to the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, including paintings and magazine covers by Norman Rockwell as well as a special exhibition of paintings and covers from Mad magazine.  I'll show some of both.

 

One gallery exhibits every Saturday Evening Cover illustrated by Rockwell.

One of my Rockwell favorites.  A family tree starting with a pirate and his captive, running through successive generations, and ending up with a typical  little American boy of the 1950s.

The Mad exhibition pairs an original work by Rockwell painting himself while looking at himself in a mirror (on the right, for the Saturday Evening Post) with the same image of Alfred E. Newman (on the left, from Mad magazine).

Criticisms of FEMA aren't new.

I worked with Mike Dukakis back in the 1970s when I was a young lawyer at the same Boston law firm.

Two classic Rockwell paintings for Saturday Evening Post covers.

DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU.

Rockwell's later covers for Look magazine often took on social topics.  This simple painting of Ruby Bridges walking to school in Arkansas escorted by U. S. Marshals poignantly illustrated the sad truth that, in 1963, ten years after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, education was still not equal.