Sahl Swarz (May 4, 1912 – October 24, 2004) was an American sculptor and arts educator.
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.
He studied under the instruction of of The Clay Club (which has become the SculptureCenter), of which Swarz was assistant director during 1936–1948, where he also headed the welded sculpture department for years. One of his students was sculptor Barbara Lekberg.
He taught sculpture at the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University. Swarz was an Arts and Letters Awards in art winner (1955), and twice Guggenheim Fellowship recipient (1955, 1958).
In 1978, he married sculptor , and they moved to live in Japan and later in Verona in province of Lucca, Italy. In 1998, he moved to Pietrasanta, in province of Lucca, Italy.
Swarz died on October 24, 2004, in Pietrasanta, Italy.
Works and books
Statue of Gen. Daniel Davidson Bidwell (1952, Colonial Circle, Buffalo, New York) The Guardian (1937), Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, (a young male standing with a long bow and a dog sitting at his feet) 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,