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[[Image:1b. East Facade.jpg|thumb|right|250px|National Museum of American Illustration]]
'''The National Museum of American Illustration''' (NMAI), founded in [[1998]], is the first [[museum]] in the world to be devoted exclusively to American [[illustration]] artwork. Located on [[Newport, Rhode Island]]'s historic Bellevue Avenue in the mansion '''Vernon Court''', designed by the noted [[Gilded Age]] architecture firm [[Carrère and Hastings]], its collection contains over 2,000 original works by noted American illustrators such as [[Norman Rockwell]], [[Maxfield Parrish]], [[J. C. Leyendecker]], [[N. C. Wyeth]], and others.
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