Masters of the Golden Age: Harvey Dunn and His Students - Gallery Tour

Masters of the Golden Age: Harvey Dunn and His Students
www.nrm.org/harveydunn
November 7, 2015 through March 6, 2016
Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Norman Rockwell Museum and South Dakota Art Museum are honored to present the first major exhibition celebrating the art and legacy of American illustration master, Harvey Dunn. A brilliant and prolific illustrator of America’s Golden Age, Dunn was a prodigy of legendary artist Howard Pyle, and an admired teacher in his own right. Born on a homestead near Manchester, South Dakota, he left the farm to study at the South Dakota Agricultural College and the Art Institute of Chicago before becoming one of Pyle’s most accomplished students-along with N.C. Wyeth and Frank E. Schoonover-and eventually opened his own studios in Wilmington, Delaware, and in Leonia and Tenafly, New Jersey. Of his mentor, Dunn said, “Pyle’s main purpose was to quicken our souls so that we might render service to the majesty of simple things.”
In 1906, Dunn obtained his first advertising commission from the Keuffel and Esser Company of New York, and throughout his prodigious career, he created painterly illustrations for the most prominent periodicals of his day, including Scribner’s, Harper’s, Collier’s Weekly, Century, Outing, and The Saturday Evening Post. Exceptional examples of Dunn’s art for publication are featured in this exhibition, which also highlights the artist’s powerful work for the American Expeditionary Forces, recording the unforgettable realities of combat. During World War I, Dunn was one of eight war artists assigned to the American Expeditionary Forces in France. He struggled emotionally as a result of his wartime experiences, but found solace in painting visions of the prairie, inspired by his boyhood memories and his love of South Dakota’s landscape and history.
This exhibition is a collaboration of Norman Rockwell Museum and South Dakota Art Museum, Generous support has been provided by First Bank & Trust
This Exhibition next appears:
June 24, 2016 - September 15, 2016
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee
Previous Exhibition Venue:
May 5, 2015 - September 13, 2015
South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, South Dakota

[@alanatolstad4824]

I have many copies of his prairie prints, coming from homesteaders in ND, I like to think the folks in his work could be MY Great-grandparents!

[@danthomas6587]

One of Dunn's students is a favorite painter of mine who's work I study intently. W. Emerton Heitland. A wonderful illustrator and world class watercolorist. I am lucky to own one of his watercolors I bought with my stimulus last year.

[@pablovasquezloayza]

Harvey Dunn, un verdadero maestro ,sencillo y humano, cumplio su deseo de transmitir sus conocimientos a los demas.

[@lindaheath784]

Thankyou for this video.

[@elmaniacodeldibujos.califo5900]

Yeaaa gente que passsa? Buen video 🍅🍋🍸🍸😁😁👍

[@luthfifarhando1804]

i pause the video when they shoot on a painting

[@jameslabs1]

Long intro in shows or TH-cam are very dated now. The art is great but the production is slow.

[@NormanRockwellMuseumMA]

Thank you for this feedback. This was produced 5 years ago. We have since made briefer intros.

[@bozoclown2098]

It would be nice to have the museum more palatial.