Biography...

Herb Arnold was born in Brooklyn, New York on March 18, 1918.  After his school days he became part of the carpet industry, which was his father's business.  One day Herb exchanged a carpet for a painting with an artist friend, who pointed out to Herb that he was "buried under mountains of carpet."  This was enough to trigger Herb to leave the carpet business and start designing and manufacturing brass goods for the cosmetic industry.  But upon the death of his father, Herb became active in the management of his father's building.  This new endeavor brought Herb into the realty field, and in 1954 he became a licensed broker.

In 1956, two years after Herb entered the field of real estate, he took on another interest.  Possibly it was the rigors of real estate, or possibly it was the responsibility of raising six children with his wife Gloria that brought on the need for him to do something entirely different and creative.  Herb turned to sculpting - first in clay and then in wood, iron and other metals.  For the rest of his life, real estate would feed his family and sculpting would feed his desire to find beauty and meaning in places others would not think to look.

Herb proved to be an inventive artist whose creative vision transformed the cast-off junk of our industrial society into sophisticated and intricate sculptures.  Using nuts, bolts, springs and a wide assortment of improbable materials, he positioned and welded these found objects into new forms, breathing life and beauty into something that others would consider insignificant.  Herb created these works of art at his home studio on Long Island, New York and in Mill Valley, California.

Herb Arnold passed away on July 14, 1993.  Throughout his life, he was a successful real estate entrepreneur and an accomplished sculptor; well known for transforming found objects into art.  His award-winning sculptures have been exhibited nationally in museums and galleries, in solo and group shows, and are now held in public and private collections in New York and California.  The message behind his art was to enable people to see and appreciate everything around them.  As he would say, "There is something very meaningful in finding beauty and value in things others don't notice or pass by.  The more you see and the more you look, the larger your world becomes."