In 1913, when the Great Armory Show introduced modern art to New Yorkers, Norman Rockwell was busy doing one hundred ink drawings for the Boy Scouts Hike Book. What part has our most popular artist played in the upheavals which have made us a major power in the art world? Absolutely none. He - and all those other artists with publishers instead of galleries - are the "meanwhile back at the ranch" branch of modern art. It's time to take another look. In 1968, Bernard Danenberg did an extraordinary thing: he put Norman Rockwell's Saying Grace in the window of his gallery on Madison Avenue and hung forty other paintings by Rockwell inside. He had remembered a man whom, as it turns out, nobody wanted to forget; and had remembered him not as an illustrator but as an artist. The exhibition was immensely popular and launched the Rockwell revival. Most people know his work solely through magazines. Now we have the original before us and can see how they were made, how the artist manipulated brush and pencil, what the colors really are. Enjoy!!

Bruechner,Thomas