© Be-Art  1980-2011  

    Born in Tampa, Florida and raised in Miami Beach. His career as a sculptor began in 1970 when at 17 after attending a metal sculpture program at the Coconut Grove School of Art, he apprenticed for the metal sculptor Hugh Dumont.  After graduating with a degree in Fine Art from the University of South Florida (1975) he worked and traveled and enjoyed a series of apprenticeships with several metal, bronze and marble sculptors in France, Italy and New York City.  Arthur attended the Lacoste School of the Arts (1978) in Provence, France. He apprenticed for the Japanese Master Yasuo Mizui in Paris.  In the late 70's and early 80's he worked in the stone and bronze studios of Pietrasanta, Italy. He maintained a studio in a historical landmark building in Tribeca in lower Manhattan from 1978 -1997. His award winning artwork has been exhibited in over a dozen solo shows and more than 100 group exhibitions, including the Grand Palais in Paris and Lincoln Center, Phillips de Pury & Company and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in New York City. He worked with the renowned Art Law attorney Gustave Harrow at New York Law School and in Manhattan Federal Court on Visual Artists Rights cases including Richard Serra’s ‘Tilted Arc”/GSA case. He has lectured on Artists Authorship Rights, copyrights and the VARA/1990 Act. He has been awarded both private and public art commissions for his large outdoor sculptures. His work is listed in the Smithsonian Institution’s inventory of American Painting and Sculpture.  A number of his sculptures were purchased by the renowned collector Richard Brown Baker, and are now part of the collection of Yale University Art Gallery.in New Haven, Connecticut.
     He and his wife have two grown children and live in a small town north of Tampa where he maintains his studio. He also teaches Yoga at a couple of  yoga studios as well as in the Group Fitness program at the University of  South Florida.