Sahl Swarz
Sahl Swarz | |
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| Born | May 4, 1912 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | October 24, 2004 (aged 92) Pietrasanta, Lucca, Italy |
| Education | SculptureCenter |
| Occupation(s) | sculptor, arts educator |
| Spouse | Naoco Kumasaka (m. 1978–2004) |
Sahl Swarz (May 4, 1912 – October 24, 2004)[1] was an American sculptor and arts educator.
Biography
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Sahl Swarz was born on May 4, 1912, in New York City to Jewish emigrants to the United States from the Austrian part of the partitioned Poland.[1][2]
He studied under the instruction of Dorothea Henrietta Denslow of The Clay Club (which has become the SculptureCenter), of which Swarz was assistant director during 1936–1948,[1] where he also headed the welded sculpture department for years.[3] One of his students was sculptor Barbara Lekberg.[4]
He taught sculpture at the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University.[2] Swarz was an Arts and Letters Awards in art winner (1955),[5] and twice Guggenheim Fellowship recipient (1955, 1958).[6]
In 1978, he married sculptor Naoco Kumasaka, and they moved to live in Japan and later in Verona in province of Lucca, Italy.[7] In 1998, he moved to Pietrasanta, in province of Lucca, Italy.[2]
Swarz died on October 24, 2004, in Pietrasanta, Italy.[8]
Works and books
[edit]- Statue of Gen. Daniel Davidson Bidwell (1952, Colonial Circle, Buffalo, New York)[9][10]
- The Guardian (1937), Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, (a young male standing with a long bow and a dog sitting at his feet)[11][12]
- 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
[edit]- ^ a b c Davis, Anita Price (October 29, 2008). New Deal Art in North Carolina: The Murals, Sculptures, Reliefs, Paintings, Oils and Frescoes and Their Creators. McFarland. pp. 168–169. ISBN 978-0-7864-3779-5.
- ^ 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]
- ^ Creating Welded Sculpture By Nathan Cabot Hale p. 184
- ^ Genzlinger, Neil (March 3, 2018). "Barbara Lekberg, Artist With a Blowtorch, Dies at 92". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 30, 2021.
- ^ Arts and Letters Awards in Art Archived April 13, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Art museum acquires 4 Swarz sculptures", Bangor Daily News, November 1, 1979, p.14
- ^ "Kumasaka Naoco"
- ^ "Sahl Swarz".
- ^ Statue of General Daniel Davidson Bidwell
- ^ SAHL SWARZ'S LOCAL LEGACY IS ETCHED IN STONE, The Buffalo News, October 12, 1994, RICHARD HUNTINGTON – News Art Critic
- ^ "Brookgreen Gardens". Funbeaches.com.
- ^ Salmon, Robin R. (2009). Sculpture of Brookgreen Gardens. Arcadia Publishing. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-7385-6656-6.
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