We Broke Ground

We Broke Ground Event Button Museum
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Illustrations
Text on Button The Norman Rockwell Museum We Broke Ground April 13, 1991
Image Description

Black text over and illustration of a man's head in profile with a yellow-green circle with black text on it on a white background
Curl Text DETAIL: THE GOSSIPS ©1948 CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY NATIONAL BUSINESS PROM. ALBANY, NY 12206
Back Style
Locking pin
The Shape
Circle
The Size
3 inch
Year / Decade Made
1991
1990s
Additional Information

The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts broke ground on the site of their new building for the museum in April of 1991. This building included an auditorium, a library, studios, classrooms, archive storage, and galleries and it was designed by Robert A.M. Stern, an architect from New York. Festivities were held to celebrate the building's construction.

Norman Rockwell was an American artist and author who was most famous for his paintings of American culture and his cover illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post magazine and Boys' Life magazine. The museum in his name holds the largest collection of his art in the world.
Sources

Announcing Groundbreaking! (1991). The Portfolio, 8. Retrieved from (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.nrm.org/portfolios/1990s/Spring_1991_complete.pdf

Norman Rockwell. (2018). Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Rockwell
Catalog ID EV0663