Ralph S.
9/19/2018
Outstanding Well worth the trek to visit this museum /home of Mr Norwood . Unique artwork from paintings and sculptures made from discarded materials.. foam, cigarettes cardboard. Mr Norwood and...
Norwood Museum
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2212 119th St
College Point, NY 11356
History
John Daniel Norwood was born in Durham, NC and moved to Norfolk, VA when he was 5. He attended The College of William & Mary (now Old Dominion University) for two years and then received the Out of State Fellowship from Virginia Museum of Fine Arts to study art in 1957. He used this fellowship to attend the Art Institute of Chicago for two years but felt he knew everything and decided to drop out of school. He worked doing architectural renderings for two years. Then moved on to Richard Rush Studios and after two years was running a shop of 20 people; painters, sculptors, mold makers and model makers. After saving money in order to spend six months in Europe, he left in January 1962. He had a bad accident on February 7, 1962 and spent 7 months in a hospital in Montefiascone, Italy. The Italians were very good to him as he was recovering. In November 1963, John remembers:
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4.52 reviewsD L.
10/3/2019
This is not so much a museum but a house that holds all his pieces of artwork. And it is literally all over the house, as John and his lovely wife graciously showed us around. But you need to...
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