National Museum of American Illustration, The
492 Bellevue Ave. at Victoria
Newport, Rhode Island 0284
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Phone: 401-851-8949 ext. 18
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Web Site: http://www.americanillustration.org
Exhibiting original artwork from the "Golden Age of American Illustration" including Maxfield Parrish, Norman Rockwell, N.C. Wyeth and seventy-five others in this extensive collection. The museum's venue, Vernon Court, is a Beaux-Arts adaptation of an eighteenth-century French chateau, by noted architects Carrere and Hastings. In 1904 it was heralded as one of the "ten most beautiful mansions in America." Open year round. By reservation only for individual and group guided tours.
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