About the Curator
Marshall L. Stoltz

BIOGRAPHY

Marshall L. Stoltz, born in November of 1937, has been a life long resident of the city of Philadelphia. He attended elementary and junior high school near his home in Philadelphia and graduated from Central High School in 1956. Having majored in health, physical education and recreation and minored in the sciences, Stoltz received his Bachelor of Science degree from Temple University in Philadelphia in 1960. Shortly thereafter, he received an in-service physical therapy degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

During his years at Temple, Marshall Stoltz became active in the field of athletic training, and by his senior year, he rose to the position of head-student trainer. After graduation from Penn, he started teaching, primarily in the field of the sciences, in the Haddon Heights (New Jersey) school system where he continued for sixteen years. In his first year at Haddon Heights, Stoltz became the first full-time athletic trainer in South Jersey, a position which he held for the duration of his teaching career. During this time, he also owned and operated the A.A.A. Trophies and Awards Company.

As a young boy scout, Marshall and his brother, Don, became interested in the works of Norman Rockwell, and as history has shown us, they devoted their lives to the works of this great talent. The collection they began as youths soon became a collection well known to collectors around the world. In 1971 the two brothers first met Norman Rockwell, giving further impetus to their collection. This first meeting led to a close working relationship between the two brothers and the famous artist.

In 1976 Marshall and Don opened the Norman Rockwell Museum in the old Curtis Publishing Building at Sixth and Walnut Streets in Philadelphia. In the same year they published the first volume of a three-volume set of books entitled NORMAN ROCKWELL AND THE SATURDAY EVENING POST, the last two volumes being published in 1979; all were a quick sellout.

Marshall Stoltz was the Curator of the Museum and now oversees the Curtis Center website, bringing Norman Rockwell to the World Wide Web.

He continues to travel extensively (over 100,000 miles per year) talking to people about the subject he enjoys the most -- Norman Rockwell.

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