| January 27 – May 25, 2008
National Geographic: The Art of Exploration
Kress and Rodale galleries
National Geographic Exhibition Guides ($2 each) will be available at the Information Desk. Quantities are limited.
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"I must pack into this panel not what one man saw on a particular day at a particular
time, but what all men have seen and felt…”
-N.C. Wyeth, from a letter to National Geographic Society President, Gilbert H. Grosvenor about
the artist’s painting commemorating Richard E. Byrd’s triumphant 1926 flight to
the North Pole
Artists play a major role in making National Geographic the magazine that it is–a colorful, carefully
researched guide to the fascinating world around us. For more than a century, gifted illustrators have
accompanied explorers and archaeologists to the far corners of the earth and to the depth of the oceans
in search of historical and scientific realities. Their stunning images bring us to places where man
can never venture, recreating long lost civilizations of the ancient past, and proposing unknown journeys
that may lie ahead.
Here, in more than one hundred original works selected from the thousands commissioned and published
by this venerable publication, artists serve as our guides to the universe. Paintings bursting with
color, excitement, and information reveal the wonders of nature, the glory of civilizations that flourished
and faded so long ago, and the outer reaches of our solar system. Iconic and unforgettable, they reflect
each artist’s commitment to accuracy and the highest aesthetic standards, helping to shape our
understanding of science, history, and geography, and inviting us to imagine our world.
Lee A. Vedder, director of collections and exhibitions, is site curator for this exhibition.
National Geographic: The Art of Explorationhas been organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
 Major support provided by Adams Outdoor Advertising, County of Lehigh and The Harry C. Trexler Trust
Contributing support provided by The Dexter F. and Dorothy H. Baker Foundation and The Leon C. and June W. Holt Endowment
Sustaining support provided by Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.; Amaranth Foundation; The Audrey and Bernard Berman Endowment Fund; and State Theatre Center for the Arts
Additional support provided by Campbell, Rappold & Yurasits; Meritage Catering; and Victaulic
Painting Sponsor
The following generous donors
have sponsored individual works
of art in National Geographic:
The Art of Exploration, and we
thank them:
Joanne and Hank Barnette;
Diefenderfer Electric;
Lehigh Valley Benefits Group;
Myers, Benner Corporation;
Mrs. Donna M. Pidcock
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H. Douglas Pratt, American b. 1944
Decline of Migratory Songbirds, illustration for Silence of
Songbirds by Les Line, National Geographic, June 1993
Gouache on paper
Collection of Peter Thayer
© National Geographic Society, 1993
Louis S. Glanzman. Maya Scriptorium,
Illustration for The Mysterious Maya by George E. Stuart and Gene S.
Stuart, 1977
Gouache on board
©
Collection of the National Geographic
Society, about 1977
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