European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Army artist january 1976 the stars and stripes Page 9 minute detail in a captains pen Ink drawings of wildlife sets his style apart by Jim Coles id suit writer Germany sail pen and Ink one of the oldest Art Are making a Strong comeback in us an according to Kurt commander of co 649th Topo graphic in a wildlife artist who uses pen and Ink said he began doing the drawings about three year i started drawing while my and i were at fort we were living in an apartment and had nothing on the Toby pushed me into drawing so i did a 30by40lnch it was very crude but our neighbors saw it and pushed me into drawing things for that was the Mumer he added that did not want to part with the original Art works and another neighbor who had been to Art shows suggested having prints the idea of going into business Sun of scared but Toby talked me into approaching her father about backing he saw the Chance for a reasonable investment and loaned us the Money to have four drawings had quite a bit of Money lied up in so we dived right into Art shows to get our name he Toby we had to learn the whole Art show business from in Janu Ary at 1975 we went to our first we had a very crude display and Only four Pic needless to say we didst sell too but some people began to notice Musser said the first break they got was from a woman whose husband was on the air Force Academy she commissioned a the Academy she didst like the first so t did another which she then i finished the i asked her if i could have those she said the officers wives club got behind it and really pushed it was my first big 1 sold about 100 the Kurt must and his Admire some his latest wildlife Art Dorsey and his pattern gospel singers photo by Jim Cole Hes repaying god through music Bbarbara Cullen staff Wriker Heidelberg secs he considers his singing Talent to be go Given and his ministry through music la his Way of re Naylane so says 4 Ernest Dorsey of reason for organizing the ration gospel director and president of the singers is also a member of the 7th army originally assigned As a Multi Channel radio communications the Singer attended Basic and Ait at Hart before arriving in at the 21st replacement his music background and suggested he audition for the at that time i didst even know the army had a Dorsey a native of new York he Sang Dunn nigh school with a Rock group called to get away and get my head together i thought the Best thing would be to go into i think the service makes you More aware of what a Man you learn not to be so dependent on mom and he the Palton gospel singers had its beginnings in the Phi Chapel Dorsey fell there was an audience in both the German and american communities for gospel music and turned the choir into a travelling ministry of the army chorus had a few gospel numbers in their repertoire and 1 saw that inc germans liked that kind of Dorsey he added that of All the kinds of music Hes gospel is his i Lind gospel music so its something i feel inside of i sing from my hearties important to sing from the heart and not just mechanically from conservatory he presently the gospel singers Are com used of in this is us hot ours Dorsey if someone feels he wants losing and come help with gods Gaw i most of bail people have no prior we have to teach but it works out pretty anyone who wants to but we say that each person must be a member of Lac the songs Are All Sung in before a German audience a translator will explain the Sones in but Dorsey feels that English in no the spirit does the it reaches their hearts just like it does being in two music groups sometimes Means conflict ing schedules for my duty with the chorus comes if in not Able to make a gospel the choir goes on without to but usually the chair tries to work around my when his army tour is Dorsey says he plans to continue in its some thing i feel inside at he god Ive a gift to me and now in giving it first Day the prints were Musser Musser said he has no formal Art train ing at in a my original love was architectural that where i came to love using pen and since Ive become people will come up and ask Why i dont get into color work or switch toothed things besides i dont have the training to do pastels or t stay with animals be cause that my my i have done a few other but they dont please he his subjects tend to be North american especially those found in the big such pumas and wild canines such As foxes and coyotes Are his favorite although he has done several drawings of african animals and a wide variety of Birds of if Musser is the production Side of the Toby is the business Kurt hates going to so i because of his Job he has to work during the week and Many times shows will Start on wednes so ill go then he will come on the alter we led Colorado we were sent to fort i must have taken his work to every show on every Art show Cir Cuit on the East we became pretty Well known in and we even were accepted at the annual Virginia Beach Art which is the biggest show of the year Toby Musser we sold the most volume and Dollar value of any of the first time we made in five at Jib to per that a lot of a West Point feels that the Only real drawback Lohia being in the army is the frequency of he said that it lakes about a year to became established in an even he weve done pretty our name is pretty Well known in the slates and we look Forward to the time when we can devote All our time to last year they grossed slightly More than from the Sale of Musser Toby we do really limited edition printing the first four we had done ran which had to be signed and that was just Loo now we limit the editions to because the mussels live in government they Are not Ner Millea to show or sell the drawings at the so sales in Europe Are Only a dream for but Tobys father is taking prints to Art shows in Florida and the last Musser his prints won both first and second place at a major Snow in fort Lau Musser said that an average drawing lakes weeks of research and a lot of time to in a fanatic for when i decide to do an i get hold of every Book on it that i i talk to any person who is knowledgeable about that animal and i hang out at where i can Sec them once in familiar with it and have decided on the it lakes about 21 hours of working to get it Toby pointed out a drawing of a Hawk and talked about the the Bird look about two Days to but the nest is really he spent two Days on each Twig in the nest is followed through and that she is the reason his Art is accepted by people who like reality in their in too i have to draw things As i see the hardest thing for me to do is a commissioned piece the buyer wants a particular tiling in the portrait and that May not be the Way i see i measure my personal Success by Huw the buyer reacts to the pictures i make Lor Musser its hard to believe All that happened in just three if someone had told me when this started that id have 24 pictures in print and thai people were buying i  have believed Musser