Catalogue

Keepers of the Flame, Parrish, Wyeth, Rockwell and the Narrative Tradition, an exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts in 2018, traced the history of three of the masters of the American Golden Age of illustration, Maxfield Parrish, N. C. Wyeth, and Norman Rockwell, and their teachers, and their teachers in turn.  By continuing the lineage, a history of art teaching and art making was revealed through a direct, unbroken line of students and teachers reaching back to the very beginnings of western painting in the Italian Renaissance of the fourteenth century.  Seventy five works of art spanning over five hundred years, including paintings by Carle Van Loo, Paul Delaroche, Mark Charles Gleyre, William Bouguereau, Jean Leon Gerome, Thomas Eakins, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Howard Pyle, and many more were displayed alongside masterpieces of Parrish, Wyeth, and Rockwell.  The two hundred and sixteen page catalogue laid out the entire lineage illustrated throughout with full page examples of paintings by each artist as well as drawings of portraits of every teacher and student in the line.