The Long Island Museum Presents Norman Rockwell’s 323 Saturday Evening Post Covers November 3, 2007 through January 27, 2008

From November 3, 2007 through January 27, 2008, the Long Island Museum of American Art, History & Carriages will present Norman Rockwells 323 Saturday Evening Post Covers, featuring every Post cover that Rockwell designed during a relationship that lasted 47 years. “In those days the cover of the Post was the greatest show window in America,” Rockwell remarked in explaining his ambition as a young illustrator to have his work appear on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. He landed his first cover at the age of 22, following in the footsteps of one of his heroes, illustrator J.C. Leyendecker. This exhibition displays Rockwell’s career-defining covers, from his whimsical Boy with Baby Carriage to his haunting portrait of President John F. Kennedy, which appeared on the magazine’s cover a second time in 1963, following Kennedy’s assassination. Featuring such classics as No Swimming, Rosie the Riveter, and the Runaway, this collection of original tear sheets is a visual history of an artist’s development and a chronology of life in 20th century America. Norman Rockwells 323 Saturday Evening Post Covers has been organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts and is sponsored by Bryant Funeral Home of Setauket , Official Offset Corp of Amityville, and Arrow Electronics Inc.

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