Overview
Schwartz was a Belarus-born sculptor who worked in Chicago. During the Depression he worked on the Federal Art Project payroll. He painted Regionalist works and in both painting and sculptural modes he was greatly influenced by European surrealism.
Awards
Detroit Institute of Arts, 1925 (prize), 1926 (prize), 1936 (prize,
Art Institute or Chicago, 1927 (prize), 1928 (prize), 1930 (prize), 1936 (prize), 1945 (prize)
Scarab Club of Detroit, 1936 (Honorable Mention)
Monticello College, Godfrey, Illinois, 1939 (First Prize), Albert Kahn Prize
Oklahoma City, 1942 (prize)
Corpus Christi, Texas, 1945 (prize)
Temple Beth El, Detroit, (First Prize)
Covenant Club, Chicago, (Prizes, 1936-1941)
First National Lithography Exhibition
Oklahoma Art Center, (Honorable Mention, First Prize)
4th National Lithography Exhibition
Union League Club of Chicago, (First Prize)
Exhibitions
Art Institute of Chicago
Associated Artists Gallery
Chicago World's Fair of 1933
Dallas Public Museum and State Museum of Illinois
Joslyn Museum
Metropolitan Museum or Art
Museum of Modern Art
Oklahoma Museum
Pennsylvania Academy
Whitney Museum of American Art
Museums and Public Collections
American Peoples Encyclopedia
Art Alliance of Philadelphia
Art Institute of Chicago
Barrington, Illinois Public Library
Bir-Bidjan Museum, Russia
Chicago Public Schools Collection
Cincinnati Public Library
Cook County Nurses Home (mural)
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Denver Art Museum
Department of Labor, Washington. D. C.
Des Moines Art Center
Detroit Institute of Arts
Elgin Academy
En Herod Museum
Encyclopedia Britannica
Henry Gallery
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha
Library of Congress , Washington, D.C.
Madison Art Alliance
Montclair Art Museum
Monticello College
Monticello College
Municipal Gallery, Davenport, Iowa
Musée Julf, Paris, France
Oshkosh Public Library
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Art Alliance
San Francisco Museum
Santa Barbara Museum or Art
Tel Aviv Museum, Israel
Union League Club of Chicago
United States Post Office, Eldorado, Illinois (mural)
United States Post Office, Fairfield, Illinois (mural)
United States Post Office, Pittsfield, Illinois (mural)
University of Illinois, Chicago
University of Minnesota
University of Montana
University of Nebraska
University of Wisconsin
University of Wyoming