Composed of cut Oak Slats Dimensions are 11.5 x 5 x 6
About the Artist:
Reuben H. Karol
Internationally recognized engineer and sculpture, founded a mechanical design company and was Rutgers professor emeritus
Reuben H. Karol, PE, professor emeritus of Continuing Engineering Education Center at Rutgers University, died on Feb. 13, 2020, at his residence. He was 97 years old. 
Born and raised in Toms River, N.J., he enrolled at Rutgers in 1940, completed three semesters, then served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps for three and a half years, both in the U.S. and the Pacific Theatre. After his honorable discharge as a 1st lieutenant, he returned to Rutgers, and earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in civil engineering in 1947 and 1949.
From 1947 to 1951 he was an instructor and assistant professor in civil engineering at Rutgers. From 1951 to 1956, he worked for ESSO, designing refinery structures and foundations. From 1956 to 1967, he headed the Engineering Chemicals Research Center for American Cyanamid Company in Princeton, N.J. In 1967, he returned to Rutgers as a professor and director of the Continuing Engineering Education Center. He retired from full time teaching in 1984, but continued part time teaching at Rutgers for many more years.
He was a licensed professional engineer in New Jersey, and was active in the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the American Society for Testing and Materials. He had chaired many of their technical committees and received numerous citations and awards. He also taught special courses at (then) New College of Engineering and Stevens Institute of Technology. Reuben was a guest lecturer at many universities throughout the United States and Canada, as well as in Mexico, Portugal, Israel, Jordan and China.
During his career, he gained international recognition for his laboratory and field research in control of water flow into underground excavations. He worked in gold, silver, copper and iron mines in Canada, coal and copper mines in the United States, copper mines in Mexico, and dams in Mexico and Jordan. His work was detailed in a college text book, and is still used in classrooms throughout the world. He has written three other books and 37 technical articles about foundation engineering and grouting for soil stabilization.
His side interest in mechanical design earned him six United States patents. Based on these, in the 1960s he founded a company to design and manufacture soil and metal testing machines. That company, now owned by others, still exists as Karol-Warner Co.
In the 1970s, he started woodworking as a hobby, and developed a process he called "contour sculpture." Using this procedure, he built laminated wood sculptures of the female figure. These proved to be very salable, and have been exhibited and sold in over 20 art galleries throughout the United States. Over the years, more than 500 of these sculptures have been sold, and new pieces are still shown in art galleries.