THIS IS NOT A CHEAP MUSEUM. IT COSTS $12 DOLLARS AN ADULT, HOWEVER CHILDREN ARE FREE.
This was very exciting because I am a cub master in Long Beach, NY and Norman Rockwell was the art director for Boys Life Magizine, the official magizine for the Boy Scouts of America! Seeing his art work so amazing!
The subjects would just jump off the canvass and draw you to the picture, as if you are there at the time of painting! My Favorite works, besides the paintings devoted to Scouting, were the Paintings of the 4 Freedoms. (SEE ATTACHED PHOTOS). The piece, Freedom of Speech is my Favorite. Then the Freedom of Religion— see how the people seem so life like and jump off the Page. Then the
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THIS IS NOT A CHEAP MUSEUM. IT COSTS $12 DOLLARS AN ADULT, HOWEVER CHILDREN ARE FREE.
This was very exciting because I am a cub master in Long Beach, NY and Norman Rockwell was the art director for Boys Life Magizine, the official magizine for the Boy Scouts of America! Seeing his art work so amazing!
The subjects would just jump off the canvass and draw you to the picture, as if you are there at the time of painting! My Favorite works, besides the paintings devoted to Scouting, were the Paintings of the 4 Freedoms. (SEE ATTACHED PHOTOS). The piece, Freedom of Speech is my Favorite. Then the Freedom of Religion— see how the people seem so life like and jump off the Page. Then the Freedom from Want I wish thanksgiving at my home was like this. The Freedom of Fear was the most controversial, it was painted at the time of the Battle of Britain, when English children were not safe in their beds.
The tour guides were great, they were very knowledgeable about each one of Rockwell's paintings, and the subjects involved. Rockwell drew them fom people in the local area. They are known to sometime come into the museum and talk about him, and the painting they sat for. The colored woman who is the cashier, her daughter was the model for the young girl in the civil rights painting of the young girl going to school. The kids would like the downstairs because it is devoted to the work of the local artist that created the series of Dinotopia. There is a half hour film with an activity book that will keep the kids interested and occupied. In the rear of the museum was an exhibition of the art work of National Geographic, which, as a school teacher, I thought was outstanding . Come summertime, I think the museum is going to change the exhibition in the rear.
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