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The award was presented by President George W. Bush to Laurie Norton Moffatt, director and CEO of the museum, at a ceremony held yesterday at the White House. “Norman Rockwell Museum is being recognized for studying and honoring the life, work, and ideals of an icon of American art,” President Bush said. “The museum has been the careful curator of the archives, illustrations, and benevolent spirit Norman Rockwell bequeathed to the nation.”

“Norman Rockwell Museum is deeply honored to be the recipient of the National Humanities Medal,” said Norton Moffatt, the museum’s director since 1986. “For 40 years, it has been the museum’s great pleasure to contribute to the field of American visual studies by exploring the art of Norman Rockwell and the illustrators who preceded and followed him.”

Fittingly, the award medallion was designed by illustrator and former medal winner David Macaulay, who is among the more than 400 illustrators whose work has been exhibited by the museum.

Other award winners yesterday included the Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer, the historians Gabor S. Boritt and Richard Brookhiser, and Myron Magnet, the editor at large of City Journal magazine.

The sculptor Jesús Moroles, comic-book creator Stan Lee, the actress Olivia de Havilland, the jazz pianist Hank Jones, and the songwriters Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman were among the winners of the National Medal of Arts.