Peter Rockwell exhibit opens at Butler branch

HOWLAND — Peter Rockwell, the youngest son of one of America’s most famous artists, didn’t want to get into the family business.

“Not just because of my father [Norman Rockwell], but because there were a lot of artists in the family,” he said. “I never particularly wanted to be an artist.”

When he left for college in 1954, one of Peter’s brothers was studying to be a painter and the other a poet.

But while recovering from a near deadly fencing accident, he looked for another, and less dangerous, hobby. That hobby, at his mother’s suggestion, was sculpting.

More than 50 years later, Rockwell continues to sculpt.

About 80 of his sculptures and prints are on display through May 24 at the Butler Institute of American Art’s Trumbull Branch, 9350 E. Market St., Howland. The exhibit opened today.

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