New York Historical Society: Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms, Tiffany Lamps + Antique Footwear

  My family and I went today to the New York Historical Society to check out the Norman Rockwell exhibit, which is currently open until September 2018.  The exhibition was spectacular and showed a wide variety of Rockwell's work. I've been a big fan of Rockwell for a number of years and it's always cool to see his work in person. It's hard to get a sense of how the paintings look in person, but they are very thickly painted!  I've seen his work in person before, but it's always surprising to see how different they look in person vs. in a photo.

An early Rockwell painting, advertising Coca Cola

This painting was actually very large!

An unfinished color study shows his technique.

The lettering is all hand-painted!

This painting look really different in person, it's very thickly painted!

Also on display, they had the coat that this model is wearing in the painting. Rockwell's studio assistant kept the coat and they had it at the historical society!

My brother and me. I liked his nightwing shirt!

  While we were at the New York Historical Society, they also had an exhibit of historical footwear, which was really cool.  And they had a collection of Tiffany lamps as part of their permanent collection.  It was really really cool.  I tried to capture it in a video below.  ⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇

This spider lamp was super cool and a very rare example because Tiffany didn't make that many..

  They also had an awesome part of the exhibit where you could choose  and change the colors of a Tiffany lampshade.  So I designed my own shade!