Sahl Swarz

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
  2. "New Deal Art in North Carolina", by Anita Price Davis pp 165–169
  3. 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
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