American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell February 28 through May 26, 2014

I'm a big Norman Rockwell fan, so I couldn't miss the show at the Newark Museum which ends May 26th..

The Newark Museums traveling loan exhibition, Angels & Tomboys: Girlhood in 19th-Century American Art

Angels & Tomboys: Girlhood in 19th-Century American Art is a major traveling loan exhibition, which is the first to examine nineteenth-century depictions of girls in paintings, sculpture, prints and photographs. Featuring approximately 80 masterworks by John Singer Sargent, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Cecilia Beaux and William Merritt Chase, the exhibition analyzes the myriad ways that artists 

vigorously participated in the artistic and social construction of girlhood while also revealing the hopes and fears that adults had for their children. While the sentimental portrayal of girls as angelic, passive and domestic was the pervasive characterization, this project also identifies and investigates compelling and transgressive female images including tomboys, working children and adolescents.