Frank Zuccarelli

Frank Zuccarelli

AGE: 90 • Somerset

Mr. Frank Zuccarelli died Monday, February 6th, 2012 at the New Jersey Eastern Star Home in Bridgewater. He was 90. Born in Olyphant, PA and raised in Bound Brook, he had lived in New Brunswick before coming to Somerset in 1961. Mr. Zuccarelli served with the Marines in the South Pacific during WW II. He was a member of Somerset Presbyterian Church. Frank received his formal art education at Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art and his B.A. from Kean University. Mr. Zuccarelli was named a 'Master Pastelist' by the Pastel Society of America, and was a member of the Salmagundi Club, American Artists Professional League, Allied Artists, and Hudson Valley Art Association. His paintings have appeared in numerous publications and exhibited nationally as well as in Canada, France, Italy, Russia, and China. Mr. Zuccarelli had done extensive work for the U.S. Navy Combat Art Collection in Washington, D.C., receiving the Louis E. Seley NACAL Gold Medal for outstanding achievement in oil painting as one of his many awards. In 1975, he participated in the Apollo-Soyuz splashdown and recovery by providing numerous paintings and sketches while aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. New Orleans. His paintings for the Navy were done through the Salmagundi Club in New York. Mr. Zuccarelli served as the official artist of the U.S. Navy from 1968 to 1981. In November of 1997, he was asked to visit China as an exchange of artists from the Pastel Society of America. Mr. Zuccarelli is a descendant of the 18th century artist Francisco Zuccarelli, one of the founding fathers of the British Royal Academy, whose paintings now hang at the Windsor Castle and major museums in England and Italy. Mr. Zuccarelli was inducted into the Bound Brook High School Hall of Fame in the fall of 2003. He is listed in Who's Who in American Art, and the 16th Edition Dictionary of International Biography, Volume XI.

Mr. Zuccarelli was predeceased by his parents, Luigi and Maria; his brothers, Anthony, Samuel, Joseph, John, James, and Peter; and a sister, Rose Mickulick. He is survived by his wife, Audrey (Clifton) Zuccarelli; his sister, Marietta Rodriguez and her husband Anibal of Bound Brook; his sister-in-law Amelia Zuccarelli of Middlesex; as well as many nieces, nephews, neighbors, and friends.

Visitation will be held from 2-5 pm Sunday at Gleason Funeral Home 1360 Hamilton St. Somerset, NJ 08873. Visitation will continue at 9am Monday at the funeral home, followed by a 10 am funeral service at Somerset Presbyterian Church in in Somerset. Interment will be in Brig. Gen. Wm. C. Doyle Veteran's Memorial Cemetery in Waretown. In lieu of flowers, contributions would be appreciated to either Somerset Presbyterian Church 100 JFK Blvd Somerset, NJ 08873 or to the Alzheimer's Association 196 Princeton Hightstown Road, Princeton Junction 08550 or at www.alz.org.