After returning from Turkey, Chuck got to have his own pilgrimage - his version of Mecca is Stockbridge, MA - home of the Norman Rockwell Museum. However, the "Mountain came to Mohammed" on November 9. The"American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell" is at the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento through Feb 3, 2013 and well worth seeing, seeing and seeing again. ALL of his Saturday Evening Post covers, self-portraits and many controversial works that did not meet the editorial guidelines of the then ultra-conservative art directors. Chuck has had the opportunity to do two SEP covers this year and it's definitely a different publication than Ben Franklin and Norman Rockwell created.
After classes, a thunderstorm began to threaten a leisurely pre-dinner piazza gathering so Chuck and I headed off (code word for "willi...
His dorm? Or maybe it's a hotel. This is way before the era of The Container Store.
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