It is a thrill to have my first retrospective at the Norman Rockwell Museum. The opening was July 10th and the show ran until September 27, 2020. You can see much of the exhibit on the Norman Rockwell site, as well as videos of me talking about my work. It is a wonderful museum dedicated to illustration and art for social justice. Rockwell was passionate that his paintings speak about important cultural and political issues, and I am honored to have my drawings beside his.
As part of the exhibit, I was invited to draw in Rockwell’s studio; I was the first artist to do so since his death in 1978. My reflections on Rockwell and the experience of working in his studio were published in The Washington Post: “In a sacred space: How New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly came to work in Norman Rockwell’s studio”
Below are three videos the museum made: one about my work in general, one is a capture of me painting a mural at the museum, and the other about my passion for live drawing on my iPad.
“Donnelly, a cartoonist and children’s book author, has been making wry, powerful cartoons for The New Yorker for more than 30 years. Don’t let the show’s name fool you: Charged with political awareness from feminism to Black Lives Matter, Donnelly’s career is a master class in using humor to heighten and amplify a dead-serious point of view.” -Murray Whyte, The Boston Globe.
