Story in LA Times.
I didn't know he was a big Rockwell collector. He's had this one for some time, but when they discovered it was a stolen painting, they called the FBI.
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Stolen Norman Rockwell found
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Darrel Manson
, Mar 03 2007 02:00 PM
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Posted 03 March 2007 - 02:00 PM
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Posted 04 March 2007 - 05:49 PM
Actually this is the picture (assuming I uploaded it right).
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Christian
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Posted 17 July 2010 - 09:21 PM
Steven Spielberg and George Lucas have donated several of their Rockwell paintings and drawings for Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, which I took in today at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
It's fabulous.
The exhibition film that lays out the filmmakers' views of the artist was directed by DePalma scholar Laurent Bozereau.
Blake Gopnik, art critic for the Washington Post, didn't care for the exhibit:
America isn't about Rockwell's one-note image of it -- or anyone else's. This country is about a game-changing guarantee that equal room will be made for Latino socialists, disgruntled lesbian spinsters, foul-mouthed Jewish comics and even, dare I say it, for metrosexual half-Canadian art critics with a fondness for offal, spinets and kilts.
I don't want to live by the clichés of a wan, Rockwellian America, and I don't admire pictures that suggest that all of us should. But I see why we need to look into how, in a world full of threats, so many of us have been soothed by their vision.
I am not unsympathetic to Gopnik's viewpoint, but man, I loved this exhibit. Maybe it's just nostalgia, but I don't care. The images are wonderful.
It's fabulous.
The exhibition film that lays out the filmmakers' views of the artist was directed by DePalma scholar Laurent Bozereau.
Blake Gopnik, art critic for the Washington Post, didn't care for the exhibit:
America isn't about Rockwell's one-note image of it -- or anyone else's. This country is about a game-changing guarantee that equal room will be made for Latino socialists, disgruntled lesbian spinsters, foul-mouthed Jewish comics and even, dare I say it, for metrosexual half-Canadian art critics with a fondness for offal, spinets and kilts.
I don't want to live by the clichés of a wan, Rockwellian America, and I don't admire pictures that suggest that all of us should. But I see why we need to look into how, in a world full of threats, so many of us have been soothed by their vision.
I am not unsympathetic to Gopnik's viewpoint, but man, I loved this exhibit. Maybe it's just nostalgia, but I don't care. The images are wonderful.
Edited by Christian, 19 July 2010 - 01:53 PM.
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Ha! Mush.
Posted 19 July 2010 - 07:17 AM
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America isn't about Rockwell's one-note image of it -- or anyone else's. This country is about a game-changing guarantee that equal room will be made for Latino socialists, disgruntled lesbian spinsters, foul-mouthed Jewish comics and even, dare I say it, for metrosexual half-Canadian art critics with a fondness for offal, spinets and kilts
Edited by David Smedberg, 19 July 2010 - 07:19 AM.
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Sometimes, there's a man.
Posted 19 July 2010 - 12:33 PM
Just noticing this thread (three years late), I must compliment Plot Device for Post #2. Very nice.
