Gene & Rebecca Tobey Texas, New Mexico (B. 1945/48) Windwalker, 1993 bronze Incised signature, date, and edition 10/25 on leg of sculpture. Biography from the Archives of askART: From Mason, Texas, Gene Tobey and his wife Rebecca have worked as a team, creating brightly colored, somewhat abstract animals with elements of realism and with line drawings incised into the surfaces. Their work ranges from small objects to a fifteen-foot bronze bear at the Law School of Baylor University. Tobey was born in Utah and began his career as a working potter and sculptor and teacher at Casper Community College in Casper, Wyoming. He was also a teacher in Albany, Oregon at Linn-Benton Community College. In 1985, he married Rebecca, and they combined five children into a family and started working together professionally. In the mid 1990s, they shifted away from ceramics to work in bronze and experiment with eye-catching patinas. Gene Tobey died at age 60 in Santa Fe, New Mexico of leukemia. Sources include: Editors, "In Memoriam", Wildlife Art, March/April 2006, pp. 80. http://www.tobeystudios.com/ 21"H x 16"W 21 1/2"H x 13"W x 9"D