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Eric Armusik's charcoal drawing of St. Hubertus

Currency:USD Category:Art / General - Direct from the Artist Start Price:300.00 USD Estimated At:1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD
Eric Armusik's charcoal drawing of St. Hubertus
In 1991, Eric attended Pennsylvania State University, where he earned a B. F. A. in painting, with and a minor in art history focusing on Baroque art. In 1995 he received the Margaret Giffen Shoenfelder Memorial Scholarship for the Arts and finished his art history minor abroad for a semester in Todi, Italy. During his art classes where he drew from original paintings, architecture, and sculptures by the old masters such as Michaelangelo, Bernini, Caravaggio, Rubens, and Donatello. The rare opportunity to study masterworks by Baroque painters Caravaggio and Artemisia Gentileschi had a profound effect on the quality of his work and focused the inspiration he experienced as a child. After years of learning the techniques of the Old Masters, Eric honed his skills at the Philadelphia studio of renowned international realism artist and portrait painter Nelson Shanks, Studio Incamminati. In 2003, Eric was selected to represent the United States in Florence, Italy at the Biennale Internazionale Dell Arte Contemporanea where he exhibited several of his paintings. Today Eric's paintings have established him as one of today's strongest purveyors of traditional figurative painting. Eric has been a finalist in four Art Renewal Center International Salons and has won the Chairman's Award for the Sixth International Art Renewal Center competition out of 1700 submissions from over 30 countries worldwide. In 2015 Eric's work was selected as a finalist for the Figurativas International Painting Competition in Barcelona, Spain. His painting was in the top 5% out of 2500 entries from 90 countries. In 2015 Eric was recognized by the Art Renewal Center as an Associate Living Master.
Eric's work has been featured in such galleries and museums as the Salmagundi Art Club and the National Arts Club in New York; Allentown Art Museum; Philip and Muriel Berman Art Museum, Ursinus College; Monsoon Galleries; Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts; State Museum of Pennsylvania; and Reading Public Museum to name a few. His paintings are in the permanent collections of Howard Tullman, The Trenton City Museum, The National Shrine of Czestochowa USA, Lehigh Valley Hospital and numerous churches private collections worldwide. His artwork has been prominently featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, MutualArt Magazine, American Artist Magazine, American Art Collector, Fine Art Connoisseur, The Huffington Post, Victorian Homes, and Old House Journal.
Eric Armusik is generously donating a 14" x 16 1/2" charcoal drawing of St. Hubertus for our Camp Freedom auction. Huburt was born into French nobility. Shortly after giving birth his wife became ill and she died at the beginning of Holy Week in 684.
As the legend continues, on that Good Friday morning, when the faithful were crowding the churches, Hubert went out to hunt. As he was pursuing a magnificent stag, the animal turned and Hubert was astounded to see a vision of a crucifix standing between its antlers.
After his vision, Hubert renounced all of his royal titles and hereditaments. This included the right to succeed his father as Duke of Aquitane. He gave his considerable wealth and possessions to the poor. Hubert lived among the people and creatures of the nearby forest and devoted himself to prayer and study. Hubert studied for the priesthood and later became a bishop. St. Hubertus is the patron saint of hunters, hunting dogs, archers and bowmen, and the inhabitants of the forest. Saint Hubertus was widely venerated during the Middle Ages and, it is said, partly because of his noble birth, several military orders were named after him.

To see examples of Eric’s artwork, please visit: www.ericarmusik.com