Verizon Donates 'The Lineman' To Norman Rockwell Museum
Verizon Donates âThe Linemanâ
To Norman Rockwell Museum
AP â VERIZON DONATES âTHE LINEMANâ TO NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM
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STOCKBRIDGE, MASS. (AP) â âThe Lineman,â one of Norman Rockwellâs iconic slice-of-life paintings, will permanently join many of his other works in the Stockbridge museum that bears his name.
Verizon is donating the $2 million painting to the Norman Rockwell Museum, where it has been displayed on loan for two years.
Rockwell painted it for a 1948 American Telephone & Telegraph ad campaign. He was inspired by a telephone lineman he spotted working in Cheshire.
New England Telephone Co. once owned it, but Verizon inherited it after a series of mergers. It hung in Verizonâs Franklin Street building in Boston for years.
A museum official says âThe Linemanâ joins about 700 other Rockwell paintings, drawings and studies there. They include his famous âFour Freedomsâ and âThe Runawayâ pieces.