Abstract Ink and Watercolor Drawing by Tobias Schneebaum

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Abstract Ink and Watercolor Drawing by Tobias Schneebaum

About the Item

Early ink and water color drawing on paper of abstract shamonic bird creature by famous New York artist, writer and activist, Tobias Schneebaum. Signed and dated (1950) bottom right. Unframed. Tobias Schneebaum (March 25, 1922 – September 20, 2005) was an American artist, anthropologist, and AIDS activist. He is best known for his experiences living, and traveling among the Harakmbut people of Peru, and the Asmat people of Papua, Western New Guinea, Indonesia then known as Irian Jaya. In 1947, after briefly studying painting with Rufino Tamayo at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Schneebaum went to live and paint in Mexico for three years, living among the Lacandon tribe. In 1955 he won a Fulbright fellowship to travel and paint in Peru. After hitch-hiking from New York to Peru, he lived with the Harakmbut people for seven months, and said he had joined the tribe in cannibalism on one occasion. He recounted his journey into the jungles of Peru in the 1969 memoir Keep the River on Your Right. Until 1970 he was the designer at Tiber Press, then in 1973 he embarked on his third overseas trip, to Irian Jaya in South East Asia, where he lived with the Asmat people on the south-western coast. He helped establish the Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress. In 1999, he revisited both Irian Jaya and Peru for a documentary film, titled Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale. Schneebaum spent the final years of his life in Westbeth Artists Community, an artists' commune in Greenwich Village, New York City, also home to Merce Cunningham and Diane Arbus, and died in 2005 in Great Neck, New York. He bequeathed his renowned Asmat shield collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and his personal papers are preserved within the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.

Creator:
Tobias Schneebaum (Artist)
Similar to:
Rufino Tamayo (Artist)
Dimensions:
Height: 15.25 in (38.74 cm)Width: 11.25 in (28.58 cm)Depth: 0.1 in (2.54 mm)
Style:
Modern (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Paper,Watercolor
Place of Origin:
United States
Period:
Mid-20th Century
Date of Manufacture:
1950
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use. Back shows signs of tape residue (see picture). No damage to front of pieces.
Seller Location:
Dallas, TX
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU188537006023