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This mural was originally made by my parents, Juliet and Gyorgy Kepes as a permanent installation for my playroom/bedroom in Cambridge, Massachusetts when I was four. My mother, Juliet, was an artist who wrote and illustrated a number of children’s books, including Five Little Monkeys (1952) received a Caldecott Medal in 1953. The playroom with the mural was featured in LIFE Magazine in 1949, the same year my family moved into their summer house on Long Pond in Wellfleet which was designed by close friend architect Marcel Breuer. More recently, the mural was redone to scale by my sons, Nico and Janos Stone, for a show at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City called The Century of the Child. We brought it Wellfleet in the summer of 2016 for display at the Wellfleet Historical Society & Museum as part of a show, “The Children’s Room: Art and Design of Wellfleet’s Midcentury Children’s Books,” curated by the Cape Cod Modern House Trust. The family shares this mural with the Wellfleet Library for all to enjoy.
~Juliet Kepes
