Norman Rockwell Museum receives National Endowment for the Humanities grant

Norman Rockwell Museum is among the 224 recipients of a humanities project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The $400,000, grant will support the installation of NRM’s national touring exhibition based on Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” series, titled “Norman Rockwell: Imagining Freedom,” scheduled to be on view later this year at the museum.

Organized by NRM, “Norman Rockwell: Imagining Freedom” explores how the “Four Freedoms” paintings came to be embraced by millions of Americans, providing crucial aid to the war effort and taking their place among the most enduring images in the history of American art. The exhibition also explores the new definitions of freedom that 21st-century audiences bring to the works. The exhibition opened May 25, 2018, at New-York Historical Society and continued on a six-city international tour through 2020.

“This grant, coming as it does at these uncertain times, will position the museum to reopen when it is safe with a particularly relevant and moving exhibition,” said director/CEO Laurie Norton Moffatt. “We are all faced with difficult decisions about the present, but this gives us a hopeful light to follow in the days ahead.”