Archivist’s Top Ten Tips

And what NOT to do with your artwork

At the Norman Rockwell Museum I met with Venus Van Ness, the museums’s archivist.

We put on cotton gloves, and she showed me the acid-free folders in which each of Norman Rockwell’s tearsheets, letters, and drawings are carefully preserved. The air was perfectly climate controlled to an ideal humidity and temperature.

“My studio doesn’t look like this,” I…