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[Keith McMullen]

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NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM PRESENTS FIRST-EVER EXHIBITION OF THE WORK OF
ILLUSTRATOR FRED MARCELLINO
Posted on Oct 18, 2002

STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.- Dancing by the Light of the Moon: The Art of Fred
Marcellino, a new exhibition celebrating the alluring art of acclaimed
illustrator and designer Fred Marcellino (1939-2001), will be on view
November 9, 2002 through January 26, 2003 at the Norman Rockwell Museum.
Marcellino is noted for changing the look of book covers for contemporary
fiction before embarking upon a second career as an award-winning author and
illustrator of popular children's books.

Many of Marcellino's most memorable book cover designs are included in the
exhibition, such as those for Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities and
Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being. The exhibition features
Marcellino's rich illustrations and designs for children's books, including
Puss in Boots, a winner of the Caldecott Honor, the critically acclaimed The
Steadfast Tin Soldier, and I, Crocodile, a New York Times Best Illustrated
Children's Book. Support for this exhibition has been provided by The
Studley Press with additional support from Harper Collins Children's Books
and from Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux.

"Fred Marcellino will best be remembered as the one who cornered the market
on mood and atmosphere with his covers and jackets, produced from the
mid-1970s through the early 1990s," writes Steven Heller, art director for
The New York Times Book Review, in an essay from the exhibition's catalogue.
"His surreal landscapes, exotic backdrops, impressionist palette, and
precisionist typography defined a particular kind of literary genre," Heller
adds.

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Marcellino died on July 12, 2001
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