{"id":27700,"date":"2017-10-20T08:09:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T12:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/blog\/?p=27700"},"modified":"2019-02-28T21:37:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T02:37:09","slug":"turning-up-the-heat-on-the-berkshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2017\/10\/turning-up-the-heat-on-the-berkshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning Up The Heat On The Berkshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 136px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artnews.com\/2017\/10\/16\/as-controversial-berkshire-museum-sales-near-and-paintings-tour-rockwell-family-meets-with-massachusetts-attorney-generals-office\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Shuffletons_NR_Berkshire_Mu-323x350.jpg\" alt=\"Shuffletons_NR_Berkshire_Mu-323x350\" width=\"126\" height=\"137\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Norman Rockwell &#8220;Shuffleton\u2019s Barbershop&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As the sales gets closer and closer, the Berkshire Museum is feeling even more heat.\u00a0 Now, the Rockwell family is exploring options to try and stop the sale claiming that Norman Rockwell donated <em>Shuffleton&#8217;s Barbershop<\/em> and <em>Blacksmith&#8217;s Boy &#8211; Heel and Toe<\/em> with the intention that they permanently remain in the museum&#8217;s collection. I, for one, believe that was probably his intentions.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the Rockwell paintings are important works by Moran, Bierstadt, Church, and Dewing &#8230; 40 in all.\u00a0 The clock it ticking!<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artnews.com\/2017\/10\/16\/as-controversial-berkshire-museum-sales-near-and-paintings-tour-rockwell-family-meets-with-massachusetts-attorney-generals-office\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aiming to Halt Berkshire Museum Sales, Rockwell Family Meets with Massachusetts Attorney General&#8217;s Office | ARTnews<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the sales gets closer and closer, the Berkshire Museum is feeling even more heat.\u00a0 Now, the Rockwell family is exploring options to try and stop the sale claiming that Norman Rockwell donated Shuffleton&#8217;s Barbershop and Blacksmith&#8217;s Boy &#8211; Heel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2017\/10\/turning-up-the-heat-on-the-berkshire\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[207,65,11,9],"class_list":["post-27700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rehs-galleries","category-rehs-contemporary","tag-auction-news","tag-museums","tag-rehs-contemporary-news","tag-rehs-galleries-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.8 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Turning Up The Heat On The Berkshire - Rehs Galleries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2017\/10\/turning-up-the-heat-on-the-berkshire\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Turning Up The Heat On The Berkshire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As the sales gets closer and closer, the Berkshire Museum is feeling even more heat.\u00a0 Now, the Rockwell family is exploring options to try and stop the sale claiming that Norman Rockwell donated Shuffleton&#8217;s Barbershop and Blacksmith&#8217;s Boy &#8211; 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