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Sahl Swarz

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Sahl Swarz (May 4, 1912, in Brooklyn, New York City – October 24, 2004, in Pietrasanta, Italy[1][2]) was American sculptor and arts educator.

Biography

Sahl Swarz was born to Jewish emigrants from the Austrian part of the partitioned Poland to the United States.[3]

He studied under the instruction of Dorothea Denslow of the Clay Club, which has become the SculptureCenter, of which Swarz was assistant director during 1936–1948,[2] where he also headed the welded sculpture department for years.[4]

He taught sculpture at the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University.[3]

Arts and Letters Awards in art winner (1955),[5] twice Guggenheim Fellowship recipient (1955, 1958).[6]

In 1978 he married sculptor Naoko (Naoco) Kumasaka, and they moved to live in Japan and later in Verona.[7]

In 1998 he moved to Pietrasanta, Italy.[3]

Works and books

Bidwell statue in Buffalo (1952)
  • Statue of Gen. Daniel Davidson Bidwell (1952, Colonial Circle, Buffalo, New York)[8][9]
  • The Guardian (1937) Brookgreen Gardens[10] (a young male standing with a long bow and a dog sitting at his feet)[11]
  • Sahl Swarz: Mosaic and Metal Sculpture, 1954, ASIN: B00226MEM2
  • Sahl Swarz 1912 -2004: Retrospective of His Life Work, Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Tokyo, 2007
  • Fifty years of sculpture by Sahl Swarz, 1933–1983, Verona : Edizioni La Quaglia, 1983, ISBN 0839003374

References

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ a b "New Deal Art in North Carolina", by Anita Price Davis pp 165–169
  3. ^ a b c サール・シュワルツ / Sahl Swarz (1912~2004), 今月のWeb ギャラリー 2009年7月]
  4. ^ Creating Welded Sculpture By Nathan Cabot Hale p. 184
  5. ^ Arts and Letters Awards in Art Archived April 13, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "Art museum acquires 4 Swarz sculptures", Bangor Daily News, November 1, 1979, p.14
  7. ^ "Kumasaka Naoco"
  8. ^ Statue of General Daniel Davidson Bidwell
  9. ^ SAHL SWARZ'S LOCAL LEGACY IS ETCHED IN STONE, The Buffalo News, October 12, 1994, RICHARD HUNTINGTON – News Art Critic
  10. ^ Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, SC
  11. ^ [2]