Montclair art museum eric carle biography
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'A Very Hungry Catepillar' is now a very cool Montclair museum show
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Eric Carle illustration for "Friends," a book about the author's childhood in Syracuse and a friend he left behind when his parents to him back to Germany before World War II.
(Courtesy Montclair Art Museum)
If you haven't read Eric Carle's "The Very Hungry Caterpillar," you haven't known a pre-schooler for nearly half a century. Through Jan. 3, the Montclair Art Museum is showing a selection of Eric Carle's children's illustrations, all of them done in his signature style: painting tissue paper with watercolor and then cutting it up to glue on archival paper, making collages in the shape of animals and children.
Carle -- he was born in 1929, in Syracuse -- grew up in Stuttgart, Germany, where his parents returned in 1936. His education during the war was stressed and sketchy, but he had an art teacher in high school who showed him Nazi-"forbidden" Modernists, like Henri Matisse, Paul Klee, and Pablo Picasso. High school students can rarely resist the allure of the forbidden.
In 1952, Carle returned to the U.S. and went to work in advertising. Those were the years when the commercial media exploded into color, leavin
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Gail Stavitsky, Chief Curator at the Montclair Art Museum (MAM), will present an illustrated lecture for The Victorian Society on the many upcoming exhibits at the museum at Montclair Women’s Club on Monday, September 21.
Stavitsky earned her B.A in Art History at the University of Michigan and her M.A. and PhD at New York University’s Fine Arts Institute. Before starting her 21 year career at MAM she was curator at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. Stavitsky says feels lucky to be working at MAM because of its unique collections and small size, which enables the museum to present in-depth exhibits that contribute something fresh to our knowledge of art history but still have popular appeal.
See what’s happening at MAM at this informative and interesting event.
From Winslow Homer to Eric Carle at the Montclair Art Museum lecture
Monday, September 21 at 8 pm
Montclair Women’s Club, 82 Union Street, Montclair, NJ, 07042
Members Free / Non-Members $5. Refreshments Served
For more information, email here or 973.744.5916
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