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The Summer of American Illustration Picturing Health: Norman Rockwell and the Art of Illustration This summer, the Florence Griswold Museum presents beloved paintings by legendary artist Norman Rockwell paired with works of contemporary illustrators. The exhibition’s theme of health and well being is reflected in Rockwell’s elaborate, painterly narratives created for medical advertisements in the last century and in the current editorial art from today’s top illustrators. Picturing Health: Norman Rockwell and the Art of Illustration was organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Picturing Health is made possible through the generous support of Pfizer Inc. For over 158 years, Pfizer has been working to help people live longer, healthier lives. Programming supported by Lawrence & Memorial Hospital.
In addition to Rockwell’s paintings, Picturing Health includes original works by twelve of today’s most respected illustrators. The contemporary artists represented in the exhibition are Melinda Beck, Cathie Bleck, Guy Billout, Juliette Borda, Cora Lynn Deibler, Teresa Fasolino, Frances Jetter, Gregory Manchess, Peter de Sève, Whitney Sherman, Elwood Smith, and Mark Ulriksen. Their images, first published in Healthy Living, Men’s Health, Newsweek, The New York Times, and The New Yorker, among others, present perspectives on many of the same health-related subjects that Rockwell explores more than 50 years ago.
The Way We Work: David Macaulay’s Human Body This new exhibition organized by the Florence Griswold Museum offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the creative process of one of America’s premier illustrators. A 2006 recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship and winner of the Caldecott Medal, Macaulay is completing a new book called The Way We Work, which will be published by Houghton Mifflin in 2008. The exhibition brings together his sketchbooks and studies, completed over seven years, in which he explores the human body from cells to systems. The Way We Work is sponsored by Middlesex Hospital and The Aetna Foundation.
An architect by training, David Macaulay (b. 1946) is the master at showing us the way things work. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, where he later taught, Macaulay’s illustrations fill the pages of nearly two-dozen books. His explorations of cathedrals, pyramids, mills, ships, mosques, skyscrapers, and cities’ underground utilities masterfully reveal the intricacies of each structure. His signature pen-and-ink illustrations, sometimes enhanced with color, use unusual perspectives and cross-section views to examine and interpret complicated structures.
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Visit the new on-line learning initiative on the Museum’s website that extends visitors’ access to the paintings in the Florence Griswold House and the personalities behind them. | |||||||||
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