{"id":7410,"date":"2018-05-24T02:01:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T06:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=7410"},"modified":"2018-06-07T07:48:34","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T11:48:34","slug":"ed-emberley-mural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2018\/05\/24\/ed-emberley-mural\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Emberley\u2019s Classic How-To-Draw Book Inspires New Mural In Malden"},"content":{"rendered":"

Caldecott Medal-winning children\u2019s book illustrator Ed Emberley visited Malden last night to celebrate the debut of a new mural inspired by his 1970 \u201cDrawing Book of Animals.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that I was born in Malden and that I breathed my first oxygen as a human being alive in Malden, there\u2019s obviously something in the oxygen in Malden that makes famous artists,\u201d Emberley joked.<\/p>\n

Emberley was born in Malden on Oct. 19, 1931, but his family moved to Cambridge when he was just a toddler, so he did most of his growing up there. He studied at Massachusetts School of Art (now Massachusetts College of Art and Design) in Boston and Rhode Island School of Design in Providence\u2014with a two-year stint in between digging ditches and painting signs in New Jersey and New York state as a member of the U.S. Army just as the Korean War was coming to a close. Then he settled in Ipswich with his wife Barbara and budding family in 1962. There he became a celebrated children\u2019s book illustrator. (Learn all about Emberley in this 2015 profile<\/a> I wrote about him.)<\/p>\n

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The Emberley family of illustrators. From left, son Michael Emberley and his wife Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick, Ed and Barbara Emberley, daughter Rebecca Emberley and her husband, musician Peter Black at “The Wonderful World of Ed Emberley” mural on Exchange Street, Malden, May 23, 2018. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The 1967 book \u201cDrummer Hoff,\u201d authored by Barbara and illustrated by Ed, won the Caldecott. He followed that with \u201cEd Emberley\u2019s Drawing Book of Animals\u201d in 1970 and his 1992 hit \u201cGo Away, Big Green Monster.\u201d Emberley has been wildly prolific, so there were numerous books in between.<\/p>\n

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“The Wonderful World of Ed Emberley” mural on Exchange Street, Malden, May 23, 2018. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Creation of “The Wonderful World of Ed Amberley” mural in Malden was organized by the local independent group Malden Arts<\/a>. Naomi Kahn composed the design based on the 1970 drawing book, which kicked off his influential series of how-to-draw tomes. Malden high school students painted the mural indoors, following lines projected from Emberley\u2019s drawings. (\u201cI\u2019m glad I didn\u2019t have to do it,\u201d Emberley jokes.) Then the panels were the installed onto the back of a parking garage facing Malden\u2019s David R. FitzGerald park on Exchange Street.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m super honored,\u201d Emberley says. \u201cThe whole point of the drawing books was to get other people drawing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Illustrator Ed Amberley draws at “The Wonderful World of Ed Emberley” mural on Exchange Street, Malden, May 23, 2018. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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“The Wonderful World of Ed Emberley” mural on Exchange Street, Malden, May 23, 2018. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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“The Wonderful World of Ed Emberley” mural on Exchange Street, Malden, May 23, 2018. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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“The Wonderful World of Ed Emberley” mural on Exchange Street, Malden, May 23, 2018. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Illustrator Ed Emberley at “The Wonderful World of Ed Emberley” mural on Exchange Street, Malden, May 23, 2018. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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