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Members Reception

  • 800 E Palmetto St Lakeland, FL 33801 (map)

Join us Friday, January 26, at 6 pm for a special Members Reception at the Polk Museum of Art celebrating the opening of our newest exhibition, Rockwell/Wyeth: Icons of Americana.

We welcome Judy Goffman Cutler, Co-Founder and Director of the National Museum of American Illustration, as the evening’s special guest lecturer.

About our Guest:

Judy Goffman Cutler is an art dealer, art collector, co-founder of the National Museum of American Illustration, and founder and Executive Director of the American Illustrators Gallery, NYC, the premier gallery showcasing major original artworks from the 'Golden Age of American Illustration'. The collection includes works by Norman Rockwell, Maxfield Parrish, Elizabeth Shippen GreenNC Wyeth, Howard Pyle, Jessie Willcox Smith, Howard Chandler Christy, JC Leyendecker, Violet Oakley, James Montgomery Flagg, and many other illustrators. She has authored and co-authored over fifty exhibition catalogues and art books published by Bison Books/Crescent Books (Random House), Harry N. Abrams, and Pomegranate Artbooks


Pictured above: Norman Rockwell, ‘Doughboy and His Admirers,’ 1919, Oil on canvas, © 2023 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery, New York, NY.

 
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