Rockwell Painting Returns to Its NPC Home

Norman Rockwell's painting of a his visit to a newspaper office has returned to the wall outside the Reliable Source.

Since November 2009, “Norman Rockwell Visits a Country Editor” has been on loan to the Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass.

The museum curators designed the exhibit to examine the artistry in Rockwell’s reference photography, and it was met with even greater interest than anticipated.

"Country Editor" appeared in the May 25, 1946, Saturday Evening Post and immortalizes the Monroe County Appeal, a weekly that has been published continuously in Paris, Mo., since 1867. It was one of scores of semi-photographic Rockwell images the magazine ran on its cover or on inside pages from 1916 to 1963.