2009 Annual Appeal
100% OF ADMISSIONS, MUSEUM SHOP PROCEEDS, AND
YOUR GIFT GOES TO SUPPORT OUR NONPROFIT FOUNDATION
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Photograph of Vernon Court Ballroom Supporters and Gentlepersons,
As the year-end fast approaches, we experienced a major surge in attendance, largely due to word-of-mouth endorsements. Visitors from 11 nations and 50 states took advantage of our new lower admission rates. The Norman Rockwell: American Imagist exhibition summered here and we have loaned it to the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor, NY until January 3, 2010. It will then tour USA museums, then travel to Europe, concluding in 2012 at England's oldest art museum, The Dulwich Picture Gallery.
 Recent NMAI visitors included museum directors from The Frick Collection-NYC; Flagler Museum-Palm Beach; Frick Art & Historical Center-Pittsburgh; Vizcaya Museum-Miami; Walters Art Museum-Baltimore; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum-Boston; Chairman, American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art-New York; Leader, English Heritage-London; Head, The State Museum of St.Petersburg-Russia; and Deputy Director and senior staff, Norman Rockwell Museum-Stockbridge. Since June, articles on the NMAI have appeared in 342 periodicals creating an astonishing new global audience of art connoisseurs, collectors and exponential growth in public interest.
Norman Rockwell American Imagist Opening Day at the NMAI
A high-resolution introductory DVD to the NMAI produced as a gift by Daybreak Productions has become widely popular and has inspired a six-part public TV series on illustration art. We solicit your support for the series to become a reality, offering a wide range of acknowledgement opportunities for participating benefactors, foundations, and corporations.
 Our Tiffany Loggia mural restoration is complete and we reopened that gallery in June. Five additional galleries permit us to exhibit works by contemporary illustrators and other areas of illustration such as sports, fashion, advertising, anon. This is in addition to selections from our permanent American Imagist Collection, always featuring Rockwell, Parrish, NC Wyeth, Pyle, JC Leyendecker, Gibson, and 80 other luminaries.
Having said the above, we need your help and support very much. We are the leading illustration art museum, but without an advertising budget, undergoing continuous restoration and a need to accommodate persons with disabilities. Additionally, we plan to offer a lecture series and must raise an Endowment Fund to insure the Collection's future. We faithfully ask you to please support these crucial efforts by year-end gifting of whatever you can.
Norman Rockwell: American Imagist on display in
Vernon Court's Newly Restored Tiffany Loggia
 Gifts of cash, stocks, paintings, decorative arts or other items are welcome. All gifts to our nonprofit 501 c3 American Civilization Foundation are deductible as a charitable contribution to the fullest extent allowed by law. Gifts with values of less than $5000 do not require an appraisal, and are also tax deductible. Naming opportunities and major gifts are appropriately recognized in perpetuity, with other gifts recognized annually on our Donor Recognition Honor Roll. Every single gift matters and is appreciated in every way!
You have our enduring gratitude for whatever support you can muster for our nonprofit foundation to protect our nation's history in images.
Bellhop with Hyacinths by J.C. Leyendecker
To donate to the NMAI Annual Fund print and fill out the form above and mail to the National Musuem of American Illustration, Vernon Court,
492 Bellevue Ave., Newport RI 02840.
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