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Sahl Swarz (May 4, 1912 – October 24, 2004)[1] was an American sculptor and arts educator.

Sahl Swarz
Born	(1912-05-04)May 4, 1912 New York City, U.S.
Died	October 24, 2004(2004-10-24) (aged 92) Pietrasanta, Lucca, Italy
Education	SculptureCenter
Occupation	sculptor, arts educator
Spouse(s)	Naoco Kumasaka (m. 1978–2004)

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][2]

He studied under the instruction of Dorothea Henrietta Denslow [Wikidata] 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.[3] One of his students was sculptor Barbara Lekberg.[4]

He taught sculpture at the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University.[2] Swarz was an Arts and Letters Awards in art winner (1955),[5] and twice Guggenheim Fellowship recipient (1955, 1958).[6]

In 1978, he married sculptor Naoco Kumasaka [Wikidata], and they moved to live in Japan and later in Verona in province of Lucca, Italy.[7] In 1998, he moved to Pietrasanta, in province of Lucca, Italy.[2]

Swarz died on October 24, 2004 in Pietrasanta, Italy.[8]

Works and books

• Statue of Gen. Daniel Davidson Bidwell (1952, Colonial Circle, Buffalo, New York)[9][10]
• The Guardian (1937), Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, (a young male standing with a long bow and a dog sitting at his feet)[11][12]
• 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, ISBN 0839003374

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