FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2011 file photo, mural paintings conservator Cassie Myers and conservation technician Lee Dunsmore with Milner + Carr Conservation LLC perform a conservation treatment on Maurice Sendak's 1961 The Chertoff Mural at the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia. "The Chertoff Mural" will go on public view starting June 11, 2016. Sendak painted it in 1961 for the children of his friends Lionel and Roslyn Chertoff in their New York City apartment. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) (The Associated Press)
PHILADELPHIA – The only known mural painted by children's author Maurice Sendak will be on display at a new public library branch in Philadelphia.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports (http://bit.ly/213PXbu ) "The Chertoff Mural" will go on public view starting June 11.
Sendak painted it in 1961 for the children of his friends Lionel and Roslyn Chertoff in their New York City apartment.
The mural depicts a white terrier leading a parade of characters including a drummer boy, a bugler, a lion, a girl and a bear.
The Cheroff children donated it to Philadelphia's Rosenbach Museum and Library in 2008. It's a subsidiary of the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Sendak is best known for his classic book "Where the Wild Things Are." He died in 2012.
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Information from: The Philadelphia Inquirer, http://www.inquirer.com
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