'Scrapbooks' pieces together Americans' history Nov 16, 2008
Clients include The New England Journal of Medicine, the Norman Rockwell Museum, and filmmaker Errol Morris, whose website Helfand and Drenttel designed. "I've learned a lot from them," Morris said in a recent telephone interview. (Boston Globe)
Richard M. Nixon 1960 Campaign Coll... Aug 28, 2008
Another collector favorite is the November 5, 1960, edition of The Saturday Evening Post, which features a Nixon portrait by celebrated illustrator Norman Rockwell. It's valued at $25-35 in top condition. (Suite101.com)
Mtn. retreat in N.C. Jul 3, 2008
"It's a happy house and it gives us a warm feeling to be in our home and garden, yet be close to town. It's almost like a Norman Rockwell picture, but you live it.". Tips for good living: Living fresh. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
A beautiful swing, a compromised future Jul 3, 2008
A pretty town, well-kept, especially in the historic district where we tourists congregate - old shop fronts that once sold hardware, dry goods, groceries, now selling candles, collectibles and coffee, and old white frame houses that make you think of large happy families in a Norman Rockwell painting (he lived in Stockbridge, not far from here) with plump women in print dresses putting platters of food on a picnic table for the Glorious Fourth. I liked a lot of Rockwell's stuff because he was a... (International Herald Tribune)
Fairhope and Point Clear offer serenity Jun 19, 2008
If there is a Norman Rockwell town in the South, this is it. www. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
TOY TOWN MUSEUM NAMES COMMEMORATIVE TOY May 8, 2008
Jarvis Rockwell, brother of famed illustrator Norman Rockwell, was the chief toy designer for Holgate from 1930 through the mid 1960s. Today, Holgate Toys enjoys the same reputation for quality. (East Aurora Advertiser, NY)
Reward beats risk Feb 15, 2008
(CNN) -- Steven Spielberg led the FBI straight to a stolen $700,000 Norman Rockwell painting someone snatched from a Missouri gallery ... The original of this Norman Rockwell reproduction was found in the collection of Steven Spielberg last year. (CNN -- International)
Project 'en-Gulfs' Harrison couple Dec 12, 2007
The Busted Knuckle Garage (all shade tree mechanics could appreciate the name, Barnum said with a laugh) features authentic Gulf products and items brought together to form a Norman Rockwell or Mayberry vision of small-town auto care. The original idea that the antique-loving Barnums had when they moved into their home was to turn the old garage into a prototypical country store. (Newton County Times, AR)
Welcome to baseball heaven Aug 12, 2007
Or maybe it is just the place Norman Rockwell was trying to recreate. Baseball fans associate it with something else: heaven. (AZCentral -- Sports)
Outer-space rocks to the rescue Jun 26, 2007
"Greensburg had real character _ lovely frontier-style buildings, the big water tower, big trees. It just felt like a lovely, idyllic American town. I remarked to Steve that as I walked to the hardware store I expected Norman Rockwell to step out and do another painting.". The British-born Notkin is meteorite-hunting partners with Steve Arnold and one of the first people Arnold called when he found "the big one.". (Columbus Telegram, NE)
Coca-Cola seeking 3 missing Rockwells May 31, 2007
"Today, "Barefoot Boy" can be seen in the lobby of the new Coke museum and "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" is in a gallery elsewhere in the building.Such paintings were important in the pre-television era because entertainment came from reading stories and magazines, said Linda Pero, curator of the Norman Rockwell museum in Stockbridge, Mass."The illustrations that went with it was a very big part of the culture," Pero said. "So in that sense, to the collectibles market, these are really... (Florida Today)
Coke's savior May 20, 2007
Original Norman Rockwell paintings usually go for more than $1 million, and Coke has three of them. Not to mention 43 Santa Claus paintings by Haddon Sundblom. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
* Gone, but not forgotten Mar 8, 2007
Director Steven Spielberg has been revealed as the unwitting purchaser of an oil painting by the American artist Norman Rockwell which was stolen more than 30 years ago. Staff of the three-time Oscar winner contacted the FBI after it posted an alert about the painting, Russian Schoolroom, on the Internet last week. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE CONSOLIDATED BUDGET Jan 11, 2007
The Norman Rockwell family goes out to dinner. 550. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
