Artist, writer and editor Joe Simon, who co-created Captain America, dies at age 98 in New York City

PHILADELPHIA, PA (AP).- Joe Simon, who along with Jack Kirby co-created Captain America and was one of the comic book industry’s most revered writers, artists and editors, has died. He was 98. Simon’s family relayed word of his death Thursday, posting a short statement on Facebook and telling The Associated Press through a spokesman that the 98-year-old Simon died Wednesday night in New York City after a brief illness. “Joe was one of a kind,” said Steve Saffel of Titan Books, [...]

Rare Norman Rockwell Exhibition Makes Only Northwest Stop at Tacoma Art Museum

TACOMA, WA.- A rare exhibition of Norman Rockwell’s iconic artworks makes its only stop in the Northwest at the Tacoma Art Museum on through May 30, 2011. As part of its 75th anniversary year, the museum welcomes American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell, which celebrates the full range of Rockwell’s artwork, including 44 paintings and 323 original Saturday Evening Post covers. Additionally, archival materials depict how Rockwell worked: from preliminary sketches, photographs, color studies, and detailed drawings to the [...]

Norman Rockwell’s America…In England Opens to Critical Acclaim

LONDON.- It has been a few weeks since the debut of the NMAI and AIG-organized traveling exhibition Norman Rockwell’s America…In England at London’s Dulwich Picture Gallery (oldest art museum in the UK), and the response from the British public and art press has been overwhelmingly positive. While taking place during London’s most intense bout of snowy weather in years, the exhibition drew record-setting attendance at its December 15th premiere. High attendance figures have continued since the debut, with Dulwich staff reporting [...]

First Ever Exhibition of Norman Rockwell’s Original Works on View at the Dulwich Picture Gallery

LONDON.- Norman Rockwell was America’s best known and best-loved illustrator for over six decades of the 20th century. Astonishingly prolific, he is best-known for the 322 covers he created for the Saturday Evening Post; but he painted countless other magazine illustrations and advertisements, capturing images of everyday American life with a humour and power of observation that spoke directly to the public, whose love for his work never wavered. Norman Rockwell, (1894-1978), The Runaway-Runaway Boy and Clown, 1922, oil on [...]

Beach, Summer Resort and Ocean Liner Posters at Swann Galleries’ Sale

NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries’ annual summer auction of Vintage Posters on Wednesday, August 4 offers fine selections of summer resort and beach posters, World War I and II and other propaganda posters, and Mather Work Incentive posters. There are also posters advertising tourism to Bermuda; ocean liner and airline posters; a run of Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company posters; and some lovely Art Deco works. The sale opens with posters from World War I and II and other propaganda [...]

Crystal Bridges to Loan Major Works by Parrish, Rockwell

BENTONVILLE, ARK.- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will share important works of art by America’s most beloved artist-illustrators with the Toledo Museum of Art. Maxfield Parrish’s lyrical nocturne The Lantern Bearers (1908), originally created as a frontispiece for the December 10, 1910 issue of Collier’s magazine, and Norman Rockwell’s Rosie the Riveter (1943), an iconic representation of the American work ethic that provided the May 29, 1943 cover of the Saturday Evening Post, will go on display in Toledo [...]

Crockwell Painting of Finch Workers Now on Display at The Hyde

GLENS FALLS, NY.- The Hyde Collection today installed the 1934 oil painting by Douglass Crockwell (1904-1968) titled Paper Workers, Finch Pruyn & Co.in the Museum’s Birdsall Gallery on the second floor of Hyde House. The painting was donated to the Museum last fall by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel P. Hoopes, of Bolton Landing, New York. Crockwell was a founding trustee of The Hyde Collection, acted as its first director, and was famous for his illustrative paintings created for such national [...]

Norman Rockwell Headlines December American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture Sale

NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams New York’s December 2nd American Paintings sale will be marked by the offering of a number of distinguished private collections as well as rare and exceptional paintings, many drawing their inspiration from the South. Of the over 100 lots to be presented, undoubtedly one of the most sought after will be a work by Norman Rockwell. Titled, The Crossword Puzzle (it is a quintessential Rockwell piece and clearly bears the hallmarks of the artist’s style. The [...]

N.C. Museum of Art Announces Exhibition for Reopening November 2010

RALEIGH, NC.- In the fall of 2010 the Museum’s East Building will reopen as the Center for Special Exhibitions and Education with an unprecedented five special exhibitions. “American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell”; “Bob Trotman: Inverted Utopias”; “Fins and Feathers: Original Children’s Book Illustrations from The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art”; “Binh Danh: In the Eclipse of Angkor”; and “James John Audubon’s: The Birds of America” open concurrently on November 7. “We’re excited to announce this significantly [...]