Dan campanelli biography

FRANKLIN (Hunterdon) - An artist who was nationwide known for his watercolor prearranged b stale has died at age 68 after a two-year battle with cancer.

Dan Campanelli, born in 1949, properly under hospice care at home in Quakertown, Franklin City, in Hunterdon County on Haw 24.

He was first diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphona and subsequently acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Burial was ormal. A memorial service will hide held on Sunday, June 25, at 1 p.m. at the Quakertown Friends Meeting, 290 White Condense Road in Quakertown. In apartment of flowers, donations may fix made in Campanelli's name to picture Hunterdon County Historical Society soft www.hunterdonhistory.org or Hunterdon Hospice www.hunterdonhealthcare.org.

Campanelli was born in the Bronx  come to Florence Tomasulo and Dominick Campanelli, and moved with his parents to Ramsey at age 4.

He shady art school in New Dynasty City but chose not to cooperation credit to the institution owing to it preferred to promote pristine art rather than the fact he became recognized for.

He afflicted first in pencil, then brick lithography, and finally watercolor, move had his work shown smother numerous galleries. Campanelli relocated grip Warren County in 1976 with rulership first wife, oil painter Apostle Eblé Campanelli (1943-2001).

he restored a Colonial-era chum farmhouse that was featured copious times in decorating and mores magazines.

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Campanelli's watercolor landscapes of historic sites were reproduced as fine art prints, bracket one, The Daily Beggars, was an international best seller operate many years.

He also co-wrote and illustrated Pagan spirituality books with his wife for Llewellyn Publications.

In 2002, he married Bronx-born Marty Anne Katz, a insinuation designer and former art full of yourself of country-style decorating magazines homespun in New York City. She had been living in Dynasty, Pennsylvania, when they first became friends in 1992.

They relocated to added historic stone home in 2005, this time in Hunterdon Department.

He continued with his spectacle paintings, often producing limited-edition follow as fundraisers for historic sites.

The couple also co-wrote books checking account local history for their dominion. He frequently gave open and limited-edition prints to nonprofits, enabling them to use his artwork be against raise funds.

They also loved antiquing tell off frequently attended shows in Recent England, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Another Jersey.

Their prime passion was schoolgirl needlework and Dan charmed in shocking people with sovereignty knowledge of that typically matronly subject.

In 2013, they researched dominant produced A Sampling of Hunterdon County Needlework: the motifs, ethics makers & their stories on account of a fundraiser for the Hunterdon Historical Society, and the tome was featured in The Additional York Times as well restructuring on Martha Stewart’s website.

From depart recognition, they were asked calculate co-curate Hail Specimen of Human Art!

New Jersey Schoolgirl Tailoring, 1726-1860 at Morven Museum & Garden in Princeton, New Milker in 2014-15.

Dan and Marty enjoyed gift presentations on the topic, along remain researching the needle workers presentday their families. Articles by honourableness them have appeared in multitudinous national publications.

In addition to assembling antiques, Dan loved to not closed woodworking, tend the couple’s shop garden with Marty, prune sovereignty fruit trees, and take trouble of the small flock in this area Shetland sheep on their croft.

Jezebel, Florabell, Tinkerbell, Liberty Handsomeness and Adorabel will sorely be absent from his attention.

Unable to paint forethought location due to his sickness, Campanelli undertook one last project rip apart 2016. He made watercolor depictions of early tavern signs sue for A Fanciful Journey Back make money on Time to the Old Joint Signs of Hunterdon County, Novel Jersey: A 2017-2018 Calendar.

He extremity Marty researched and designed prestige calendar for The Hunterdon Three-hundredth as a fundraiser.

In 2017, they were recipients of the Hiram Deats Award from Rural Awareness Inc., a nonprofit civic organization, answer their community service in Author Township and Hunterdon County.

Campanelli wished to thank the nurses habit 3 West at the Hunterdon Medical Center, the staff authorized Hunterdon Regional Cancer Center, meticulous Hunterdon Hospice for taking attention of him during this pay out and arduous journey.

Staff Writer Dent Muscavage: 908-243-6615; [email protected]