Fish by Norman Gorbaty, Amer., (1932-2020) Charcoal Melody Asbury gravitated towards art

Melody Asbury gravitated towards art and nature at an early age

and was deeply committed to the Silvermine Guild of Artists in the Silvermine area of Norwalk

numbered in pencil on cream wove Arches paper

one of twenty landscape subjects from "Sites Varies de Paysages par Calame"

trimmed just within the plate mark

Fish by Norman Gorbaty, Amer., (1932-2020) Charcoal Melody Asbury gravitated towards artPen and Bistre Ink Drawing, 1979, 14 11 16 x 19 1 2, sheet 16 x 21, slight water stain along length of right margin just touching signature lower right margin corner, on a full sheet of cream laid WORTHY watermarked paper. A bold and visceral drawing by Gorbaty, who was equally at home with painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking. A student of Gabor Peterdi, Albers and Louis Kahn at Yale, Gorbaty forged a successful career as illustrator and