Spielberg Loans at Lucas
Norman Rockwell, Happy Birthday, Miss Jones , 1956. Private collection [probably Steven Spielberg] Steven Spielberg is apparently the uncredited lender of three Norman Rockwell paintings at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. In 2010 the Smithsonian American Art Museum presented a joint exhibition of Lucas' and Spielberg's Rockwell collections . The show's website is still active, and it identifies three paintings and one drawing in the LMNA installation as being owned by Spielberg. They are Happy Birthday, Miss Jones, The Connoisseur, The Jury , and a finished preparatory drawing for Triple Self-Portrait . The Lucas labels credit these works to a "private collection." Spielberg and Lucas have been friends since they met at USC film school in 1967. Spielberg also collects movie memorabilia and has lent one of the original "Rosebud" sleds from Citizen Kane to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
