Illustration Partners - The Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies

Collections and Partners

The Rockwell Center is a network of prominent museums, distinguished collections, institutional partners, and scholarly resources, whose common interest is American illustration art and visual studies.

American Illustration Collections and Network Partners:

Please note: This is a partial list.

Brandywine River Museum
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
American illustration is a major component of the museum’s collection. The collection includes illustrations by many of the 19th and 20th century American illustrators Howard Pyle, Rockwell Kent, Edward Gorey, Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss), N. C. Wyeth.

Center for Historic American Visual Culture, of the American Antiquarian Society

Worcester, Massachusetts

Established in 2005, the Center for Historic American Visual Culture (CHAViC) at the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) provides opportunities for educators to learn about American visual culture and resources, promotes the awareness of AAS collections, and stimulates research and intellectual inquiry into American visual materials.

Delaware Art Museum
Wilmington, Delaware
The museum’s creation dates from a few months after the passing of the illustrator and illustration teacher Howard Pyle and focuses on his work and that of his students. There is also the country’s largest collection of illustration work by the American realist artist John Sloan.

Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
Amherst, Massachusetts
This collection is comprised of original examples of contemporary picture book illustration.

Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
In L.C.’s department of Prints and Photographs is an extensive collection of American illustration art and material culture.

Farnsworth Museum
Rockland, Maine
The Wyeth Center, which features artworks by N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, and James Wyeth. The museum collection includes one original painting by Norman Rockwell, created for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.

Museum of the City of New York
New York City
Illustration art highlighting the evolution of New York City, including works by Rea Irvin, Mary Petty, Helen Hockinson, and many others.

Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators
New York City
Collections featuring works by historical and contemporary illustrators.

National Museum of American Illustration
Newport, Rhode Island
(Affiliated with American Illustrators Gallery, New York City)
A collection of American illustration art from its early years through “Golden Age” illustrators including Howard Pyle, N. C. Wyeth, Maxfield Parrish, Dean Cornwell, J. C. Leyendecker, and Mead Shaeffer; works by Norman Rockwell and many others.

National Scouting Museum

Irving, Texas

The National Scouting Museum is the official museum of the Boy Scouts of America, and houses the most comprehensive collection of historical records, artifacts, and artwork related to the American Scouting movement. Illustrations in the collection include forty-seven paintings by Norman Rockwell, numerous artworks by Joseph Csatari and Remington Schuyler, and pieces by J.C. Leyendecker, Dean Cornwell, Walt Disney, Howard Chandler Christy, and other notable artists.

New Britain Museum of American Art
New Britain, Connecticut
Over 1,400 works of original American illustration art on rotating display.

New York State Museum
Albany, New York
Natural and cultural history collections consists of approximately 20,000 illustrations that have been created primarily for publication. These feature subjects in the fields of Anthropology, Biology, Geology, History, and Paleontology. There are at least 5,000 archeological and ethnological illustrations, valuable as documents of time and history. Of the biological illustrations, 1,962 are by Charles H. Peck, the museum mycologist from 1868-1913.

Norman Rockwell Museum
Stockbridge, Massachusetts
More than 700 original works by Norman Rockwell and also a growing collection of work by other American illustrators including Howard Pyle, N. C. Wyeth, Edmund Dulac, Thomas Fogarty, among others.

Williams College Museum of Art
Williamstown, Massachusetts
Political cartoons, including the works of Thomas Nast.

American Illustrators Gallery
New York City

Illustration House Gallery
New York City

Shhboom Illustration Gallery

Joliet, Illinois

Taraba Illustration Art, LLC

Casper, Wyoming

The Illustrated Gallery

Fort Washington, PA

NASA
Florida and Texas Paintings highlighting notable moments in space research and flight.

National Postal Service
Washington, D.C.

United States Armed Forces

Dodd Center, University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut
Original picturebook art including works by Barry Moser, Jane Dyer, Tommy DiPaola, and others.

Mazza Museum, University of Findlay
Findlay, Ohio
Picturebook Art.

Cartoon Research Library, Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan
Comic Art Collections including original and published work.

Cartoon Research Library, Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
Comic art collections and annual symposium/festival.

Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University
New Brunswick, New Jersey
General Collections and the Roger Duvoisin Gallery for Children’s Books.

Gallery of Art, University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware
Special Collections show the development of botanical illustration from early printed books to the present day.

Modern Graphic History Library, Washington University
St. Louis, Missouri
Art and archival materials by contemporary illustrators, including Al Parker, Robert Weaver, Robert Andrew Parker.

Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York
The Research Center collections focus on the art of many English illustrators and the American illustrator Maxfield Parrish. The collections also have a concentration of the political side of illustration via cartooning in the work of William Gropper and others.