Sahl Swarz

Sahl Swarz
Born(1912-05-04)May 4, 1912
New York City, U.S.
DiedOctober 24, 2004(2004-10-24) (aged 92)
Pietrasanta, Lucca, Italy
EducationSculptureCenter, Art Students League of New York
Occupation(s)Sculptor, arts educator
SpouseNaoco Kumasaka (m. 1978–2004)

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

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

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Library exhibit traces a sculptor's progress". The Star-Ledger. December 4, 1977. p. 123. Retrieved February 26, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Sahl Swarz's local legacy is etched in stone". The Buffalo News. October 12, 1994. p. 19. Retrieved February 26, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "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.
  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]
  6. ^ Creating Welded Sculpture By Nathan Cabot Hale p. 184
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ Arts and Letters Awards in Art Archived April 13, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ "Art museum acquires 4 Swarz sculptures", Bangor Daily News, November 1, 1979, p.14
  11. ^ "Kumasaka Naoco"
  12. ^ "Sahl Swarz".
  13. ^ "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.
  14. ^ "Buffalo's statutes and monuments". The Buffalo News. July 29, 2009. p. 2. Retrieved February 26, 2025.
  15. ^ Salmon, Robin R. (2009). Sculpture of Brookgreen Gardens. Arcadia Publishing. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-7385-6656-6.
  16. ^ "Then and Now". The Berkshire Eagle. September 17, 2006. p. 41. Retrieved February 26, 2025.
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