Students from a New York City high school who are petitioning legislators in the Big Apple to name a street after Norman Rockwell are visiting the famed artist’s museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts Thursday.Students from Edwards A. Reynolds West Side High School will tour the museum, which holds nearly 1,000 paintings and illustrations in the town where Rockwell spent the last 25 years of his life. But the students want the artist to be recognized near his birthplace on West 103rd Street in Manhattan. Museum chief curator Stephanie Plunkett says despite his love for small towns, Rockwell’s urban experiences are relevant in some paintings.
“For example “Soldier’s Homecoming” which is a great World War II painting, is actually set in Troy, NY, but it really has this wonderful feeling of the brick row houses that he would’ve known pretty well growing up in New York City.”
The New York City Council must approve street renaming.
