American Icons in Newport

Summer 2003 As a nation that uses images to create and reflect itself, where better to unravel our character than at Newport Rhode Island's National Museum of American Illustration? View this Article

Maxfield Parrish's Masterpiece 'Daybreak' at National Museum of American Illustration

July 14, 2006 Maxfield Parrish's record-setting masterpiece, Daybreak, is on loan to the National Museum of American Illustration... View this Article

Exhibition Exchange Signed Between NMAI and Shanghai Art Museum

July 14, 2006 On the eve of its sixth anniversary (July 4) the National Museum of American Illustration has announced that the museum has entered into a cooperative agreement with the Shanghai Art Museum... View this Article

Illustrious Achievements

Judith Goffman Cutler and Laurence Cutler usher in a new "Golden Age" of American Illustration April 2006 BY MARGIE GOLDSMITH View the Article

Public gets one last look at a Parrish masterpiece

July 6, 2006 by Bill Van Siclen Two months ago it sold for a record-setting $7.6 million. Now Daybreak, the famous Maxfield Parrish painting of two youths outlined against a background of lavender-hued mountains, is taking a victory lap, of sorts before disappearing into a private collection. View this Article

A new exhibit of items from 13 Museums...

September 20, 2001 BY BILL VAN SICLEN The Smithsonian Institution in Washingtion, D.C., likes to bill itself as "America's attic." In the same spirit, Newport might want to start calling itself "America's fancy front parlor." View the Article

'Our benevolence and philanthropy'....

July 27, 2001 Editorial PageThe mission of the National Museum of American Illustration, at Vernon Court, is to share "the most American of American art" with the public and to preserve it in perpetuity. View this Article

Midsummer Nights

July 4, 2000 by C Wayne Miller It's eight o'clock on Saturday night, July 10, and women in evening gowns and men in tuxedos are streaming into Eileen Slocum's Bellevue Avenue residence... View this Article

Illustrious Fix-up – The couple who looked at a derelict mansion and saw a Museum

August 1, 1999 BY CHANNING GRAY Laurence and Judy Cutler had just one requirement when they went looking for a new house – room enough to hang their art collection. View this Article

NMAI : National Museum of American Illustration

July 31, 2003 Based in Newport, Rhode Island, The National Museum of American Illustration (NMAI) was founded in 1998, with the support of the National Arts Club... View this Article

Newport Do's and Don'ts: The Mansions

September 24, 2005 BY: LOUIS BRUNO The Newport, RI mansions define conspicuous consumption. If gawking at generally tasteless faux grandeur is your thing, you'll not want for things to do.... View this Article