Ad Executive Follows Passion to Create Fine Art

THE NEW YORK TIMES
March 11, 2011

"Creation of Eve" (1977)

CONNECTICUT -  Norman Gorbaty, a retired advertising executive, stood in a corner of the Walsh Art Gallery at Fairfield University here, rag in one hand, can of tung oil in the other, patiently polishing his 7-foot-by-5-foot walnut bas relief, called “Struma.” Mr. Gorbaty, 78, has been making artworks — many of them large — for more than half a century — hundreds, probably thousands, of pieces in more than a dozen media. The subjects were similarly varied: naturescapes and other sights from yearly trips to Europe and elsewhere; portraits, both realistic and abstract; and Judaica, a passion borne of his Russian-Jewish heritage and Brooklyn upbringing. [link]