NMAI PARTICIPATING IN
NEW YORK TIMES ARTS WEEKEND
January 9 - 11, 2009
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 December 12, 2008:
The National Museum of American Illustration (NMAI) will be participating in the New York Times Arts Weekend, Friday, January 9, to Sunday, January 11, from 10 AM to 4PM each day. Tickets will be available two for the price of one for the duration of the event.
Visitors will be able to visit the American Imagist Collection of the NMAI, as well as five new galleries on the museum's lower level, and the museum gift shop.
The NMAI is the only museum in Rhode Island to have participated in the New York Times Arts Weekend since the beginning. This year, the
RISD Art Museum will be participating, as well as prestigious museums
throughout the USA, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, the Harvard art museums, and the art museums of
the Smithsonian Institution.
For further information, please contact the NMAI Admissions Desk at 401-851-8949, ext. 18.
above: NMAI visitors in front of Norman Rockwell's Miss Liberty
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The Museum is open year-round for visitors and group tours by advance reservation.
Tickets:
$25. Group Tours, Seniors (60+), and Military w/id: $22. Students w/id:
$15. Children ages 5 to 12: $10. Children ages 5 to 12 are permitted, only if they are vouchsafed by parents or guardians as being 'well-behaved.'
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For Reservations:
 Eric Brocklehurst
National Museum of American Illustration
492 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, RI 02840
T: 401-851-8949 ext.18. F: 401-851-8974
eric@americanillustration.org, www.americanillustration.org
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The
National Museum of American Illustration is a nonprofit, independent,
educational and aesthetic organization. It is located in Newport, RI,
on Bellevue Avenue at Vernon Court (1898), a Carreré and Hastings
designed Beaux-Arts adaptation of an 18th century French chateau. It is
the first national museum devoted exclusively to American illustration
art. Illustration consists of original artwork created to be reproduced
in books, magazines, newspapers, and advertisements. 'Golden Age'
paintings by such luminaries as Norman Rockwell, Maxfield Parrish, NC
Wyeth, JC Leyendecker, and 75 others are displayed in 'Gilded Age'
architecture, creating a unique union of architecture and art - a
national treasure. The Museum is administered by the American
Civilization Foundation, a nonprofit organization with the goal to
present the best possible venue for appreciating the greatest
collection of illustration art - the most American of American art.
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