Curator Tour – Norman Rockwell: At Home in Vermont

Join Carolyn Bauer, Marna and Chuck Davis, Curator of American Art, for a guided tour of the exhibition, Norman Rockwell: At Home in Vermont, which explores how America’s beloved illustrator Norman Rockwell (1894–1978) crafted an idealized vision of Vermont—nostalgic, resilient, and mythic—during his most prolific years in Arlington (1939–1953) . In his works, Rockwell offered a nation battered by the Great Depression and weathering World War II a reassuring image of American life: orderly, self-reliant, and picturesque. As Arlington-based author Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879–1958) wrote, “Most Americans are afraid of poverty or social inferiority or change or politics…but it is true [that in Vermont] a whole stateful of people have no ground for apprehension.” Limited to 20 participants.