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Untitled - Landscape with windmills and god as the Good Shepherd.

circa 1570

An incredible photo-realist drypoint etching of a Native American man by Gilbert Adam Shoenbrod (American, 1903-1996), 1937. Titled "The Hunter", this hyper detailed portrait depicts the man at work on his craft. Created in 1937 with an edition of 50. Signature signed in pencil, lower right margin. Framed and triple matted; off-white metal frame. Shipped without glass. Image, 6"H x 8"W. The artist was from Highland Park, IL and active in Pacific Grove, CA. He exhibited drypoints at the Chicago Society of Etchers and Brooklyn Society of Etchers exhibits in the 1930’s. The National Museum of American Art has 2 of his prints. Studied drawing and biology at Stuyvesant High School, long recognized for technical and scientific excellence. The groundwork for meticulous detail and accuracy was laid at New York University in his studies of the microscopic structure of the cell. Attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, he left medical school to study painting and sculpture at Yale University. At 40, he returned to Columbia, but this time to the school of education where he earned a master's degree and taught. While at the University, he met an Arabian silversmith who became a close friend, enhancing Gilbert's interest in the eastern handicrafts. Under a master's instructions he acquired the ancient skills of metal craft and jewelry-making. In 1948 on a trip to the West Coast he discovered Carmel and in the following year moved to that haven of artists to open his own studio for handcrafted jewelry. Biography form the Pacific Grove Tribune Wednesday, September 15, 1971. Smithsonian Records Grovian’s Career by Iona Logie: Against the blazing sunset of the matchless August evening, in Pacific Grove, a slight intensely blue-eyed man of slim and youthful stature stands erect on his balcony. His every line is a prayer and a paean to man’s longing for inner perfection. Since dawn, he has been engrossed in studio and workshops fronting the blue Pacific. His day is done at sundown; he will rise to greet the morning light-and set to work again. The paintings, drawings and writings of this new artist on the national scene have been selected by the Smithsonian Institute in Washington to be preserved in microfilm in the archives of a dawning art in American painting and thought. The works of Gilbert Adam Schoenbrod ( Gilbert Adam) are now recognized as a well-defined clearing in the confusion of the day. They cut through the maze of man's own creating, to arrive at a basic framework of order, showing man's place and purpose in the viewers. To many viewers, the Schoenbrod portraits of his fellow man whether drawings, paintings or etchings, brain brain to mind a complex of Rembrandt, William Blake, Kahlil Gibran, and Leonardo da Vinci. The faces, drawn from the depths of consciousness, over the soul of man to reveal in nakedness his dreams, his hopes, his fears, and his determination to find self truth, and goals of deepest meaning. With picture and word, the artist spreads out for viewing the anatomy of the whole, from cosmic beginning to present, and on into the future. He places the struggling in the now within the tide of progression, supplying the key of perspective for reevaluation and orientation in the seeming hopelessness of today's distracted way of life. CHICAGO This artist-resident of Pacific Grove was born in Chicago in 1903. His parents were from old Russia, and in his work he shows the depth and warmth of his Eastern heritage-- more especially in the etchings of scholars and ancients. His early childhood was spent in Texas as well as Chicago. Later in New York, he acquired the first useful skills in drawing at Stuyvesant High School, long recognized for technical and scientific excellence. The groundwork for meticulous detail and accuracy was laid at New York University in his studies of the microscopic structure of the cell. In preparation for a career in medicine,Schoenbrod specialized in biological sciences, but also took time from studies to travel and explore the world of industry. He worked on a New England farm, put in night hours on the assembly line of a shingle factory. For a time, he was an oiler of locomotives in the roundhouse...

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