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Jerry the Marble Faun born Jerry Torre on January 25, 1955 in New York, NY is an artist well known for his appearance as a teen handyman in the 1975 Maysles' Brothers documentary Grey Gardens about Jacqueline Bouvier-Kennedy-Onassis's aunt and first cousin, Big Edith Bouvier Beale and Little Edie Bouvier Beale. Upon meeting Jerry, Little Edie nicknamed him The Marble Faun, after the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/03/06/the-marble-faun Jerry appears in Grey Gardens, The Beales of Grey Gardens, and in the 2006 Off Broadway musical, Grey Gardens. The musical contains a song sung by Mrs. Beale's character titled "Jerry Likes My Corn" http://www.pandora.com/grey-gardens-original-off-broadway-cast-recording/grey-gardens-original-off-broadway-cast-recording/jerry-likes-my-corn In addition to sculpting stone, Jerry has worked as a gardener for the Royal Family of Saudi Arabia, with Wayland Flowers and his puppet “Madame” during their cabaret acts in the 70′s, and twenty years as a taxi cab driver in New York City. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/03/06/the-marble-faun Recently Jerry has received wide attention for sculpting stone. His work was exhibited with Jackie Klempay Gallery at the Outsider Art Fair in 2015. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/30/arts/design/jerry-torre-the-marble-faun-at-outsider-art-fair.html?_r=0 http://www.wsj.com/articles/an-inside-guide-to-outside-art-142256860  http://www.architecturaldigest.com/blogs/daily/2015/01/outsider-art-fair-preview-slideshow_slideshow_item6_7  http://www.forbes.com/sites/abinlot/2015/01/28/hot-market-the-outsider-art-fair-opens-in-new-york/  http://ceblog.sva.edu/2015/01/baby-its-warm-outside/  http://www.vogue.com/9273279/2015-outsider-art-fair-highlights/  http://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/10-picks-from-the-outsider-art-fair-2015  http://www.artspace.com/magazine/news_events/2015-outsider-art-fair  http://hamptonsarthub.com/2015/01/31/jerry-the-marble-faun-of-grey-gardens-at-outsider-art-fair-ny/