Sahl Swarz (May 4, 1912 – October 24, 2004) was an American sculptor and arts educator.

Biography

Statue of General Daniel Davidson Bidwell, Buffalo, New York

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

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.サール・シュワルツ / Sahl Swarz　(1912～2004)
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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

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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,

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, 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,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Swarz, Sahl 1912 births 2004 deaths Jewish American artists 20th-century American sculptors American male sculptors 20th-century American Jews 21st-century American Jews 20th-century American male artists