Exhibition Preview - Norman Rockwell: At Home in Vermont

Wed Apr 29 2026 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm UTC-04:00

Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education | Shelburne

Shelburne Museum
Publisher/HostShelburne Museum
Exhibition Preview - Norman Rockwell: At Home in Vermont
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Tom Denenberg will explore the history of artist/illustrators in New England in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
About this Event

Join us in-person or online for a preview of the exhibition Norman Rockwell: At Home in Vermont, on view June 20–October 5, 2026. In this illustrated lecture, Tom Denenberg the John Wilmerding Director & CEO of Shelburne Museum will explore the history of artist/illustrators in New England in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Important figures include Winslow Homer, N.C. Wyeth, Maxfield Parrish, Rockwell Kent and Norman Rockwell—all of whom maintained a complicated relationship with commercial work as they pursued careers as creative practitioners in an era that witnessed the development of the persona of the modern artist.

Lecture followed by audience Q&A.

Free.

If you'd like to attend virtually instead of in person, please register via Zoom.



Image Caption: Unidentified photographer, Untitled [Norman Rockwell painting The Craftsman], ca. 1963. Photograph, 10 x 8 1/8 in. Vermont Granite Museum. 2021.74.512.


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Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, 50 Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, United States

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