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Original Oil on Board by Gerry Metz

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Original Oil on Board by Gerry Metz
"The Mountain Man Trader" signed lower left. Image measures 14 7/8" x 21 1/2" in gold frame mounted on suede mat with brass title plate and wood frame. Gerry Metz is a painter and sculptor in realist style of Old West subjects. He settled in Scottsdale, Arizona in 1971. Gerry was born, raised, and educated in Chicago, attending Wright Junior College and the School of Professional Art . After that he was a commercial artist and director of the Village Art School in Skokie, and he was also an instructor of Oil Painting and Life Drawing at the Phoenix Art Museum. Working in Arizona, Gerry tries to imagine what it was like one-hundred years ago. Gerry's work is in collections in Arizona, including the Valley National Bank, Wrigley Mansion, and in other locations including the Franklin Mint and Miles Laboratories. He has exhibited in the Biltmore Celebrity Show in Los Angeles, the Governors Invitational in Cheyenne, Wyoming and the Peppertree Americana in Santa Ynez, California.