Meaningful Matters

Remembering Maurice Sendak

The death of the towering author-illustrator inspired a wealth of tributes from all over the world. We offer an interesting remembrance posted by the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia, an institution with which Mr. Sendak had a long and fruitful relationship, and on whose Board of Trustees he served prior to being named Honorary President of the Board. Included in this tribute is video of Mr. Sendak discussing his only surviving monumental-scale work, the Chertoff mural, which he painted on the wall of his friends’ apartment in New York City in 1961, and which the Rosenbach acquired and restored beginning in 2008.