Archive: sculptures by Herb Rosenberg

It was the Banana Period in Herb Rosenberg's career. His home and studio seems to be draped everywhere with banana peels drying into an exhaustive array of shapes. Each bronze piece began as a dried banana peel dipped into wax thus forming its armature. Manipulating the banana's hot waxed form defined the pose. Herb's sculpture career began in the old academic figurative surroundings of the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris where he spent a year as Harpur College's [Binghamton University] first junior-year abroad student in 1962-63. The energy and passion of Rodin and Claudel later, however, sent him reeling into what became a series of small magical moving human forms in bronze. What were originally conceived as maquettes for monumental pieces the small bronzes clearly stand on their own.