Sahl Swarz (May 4, 1912 – October 24, 2004)[1] was an American sculptor and arts educator.[2][3] His preferred materials were steel and bronze.[4]
Biography
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][5]
He studied under the instruction of Dorothea H. 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.[6] One of his students was sculptor Barbara Lekberg.[7] He also studied at the Art Students League of New York.[8]
He taught sculpture at the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University.[5] Swarz was an Arts and Letters Awards in art winner (1955),[9] and twice Guggenheim Fellowship recipient (1955, 1958).[10]
In 1978, he married sculptor Naoco Kumasaka, and they moved to live in Japan and later in Verona in province of Lucca, Italy.[11] In 1998, he moved to Pietrasanta, in province of Lucca, Italy.[5]
Swarz died on October 24, 2004, in Pietrasanta, Italy.[12]
Public works
- Freemen Prosper and Defend Freedom (1948), two wooden sculptures, U.S. Post Office and Federal Building, Statesville, North Carolina[8]
- Statue of Gen. Daniel Davidson Bidwell (1952), Colonial Circle, Buffalo, New York; see image[13][14]
- The Guardian (1937), Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina; depicting a young male standing with a long bow and a dog sitting at his feet[15]
- Fountain, Pittsfield, Massachusetts; removed in 1980 due to maintenance issues[16]
Publications
- Sahl Swarz: Mosaic and Metal Sculpture (exhibition catalogue). New York City: SculptureCenter. 1954. OCLC 20407294.
- Fifty Years of Sculpture by Sahl Swarz, 1933–1983. Verona, Italy: La Quaglia. 1983. ISBN 0839003374.
- Sahl Swarz 1912 -2004: Retrospective of His Life Work, Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Tokyo, 2007
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Library exhibit traces a sculptor's progress". The Star-Ledger. December 4, 1977. p. 123. Retrieved February 26, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Sahl Swarz's local legacy is etched in stone". The Buffalo News. October 12, 1994. p. 19. Retrieved February 26, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Swarz, Sahl". Who's Who in American Art, 1973: A Biographical Directory. Jaques Cattell Press/R.R. Bowker. 1973. p. 718. ISBN 978-0-8352-0611-2.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Stonestreet III, O.C. (March 18, 2001). "Art: Sculptures were created by Sahl Swarz, an Army man". Statesville Record and Landmark. p. 4. Retrieved February 26, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ 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".
- ^ "Sahl Swarz's Local Legacy Is Etched in Stone". The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY). April 9, 2016. Archived from the original on April 9, 2016. Retrieved February 26, 2025 – via HighBeam Research.
- ^ "Buffalo's statutes and monuments". The Buffalo News. July 29, 2009. p. 2. Retrieved February 26, 2025.
- ^ Salmon, Robin R. (2009). Sculpture of Brookgreen Gardens. Arcadia Publishing. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-7385-6656-6.
- ^ "Then and Now". The Berkshire Eagle. September 17, 2006. p. 41. Retrieved February 26, 2025.
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