Manfred Schwartz (1909-1970) Oil Painting on Canvas Portrait of Artist Abraham Walkowitz

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Manfred Schwartz (1909-1970) oil painting on canvas portrait of artist Abraham Walkowitz. An interesting composition showing Walkowitz standing before his … Read more Manfred Schwartz (1909-1970) oil painting on canvas portrait of artist Abraham Walkowitz. An interesting composition showing Walkowitz standing before his own work - a painting of dancer Isadora Duncan. Signed lower right.

Measures 20" x 16" sight; 27 1/4" x 23 1/4" framed.

Manfred Schwartz was educated at the Sorbonne in Paris, the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, the Art Students League of New York and the National Academy of Design in New York City.

Schwartz exhibited at the inception of his career with such luminaries as Edward Hopper, Maurice Vlaminck, and Andrew Wyeth. His teachers included the Ashcan School artists John Sloan and Charles Hawthorne. He moved to Paris in 1929, where he studied both classicism and the art of his immediate predecessors, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cezanne, and Picasso. Schwartz also became active in the School of Paris. He was known first, from the mid 1930s through the 1940s, for a liberated, colorful version of synthetic cubism.

By 1950, Schwartz had several solo shows including at the Lilienfeld and Durand-Ruel Galleries. At the urging of Henri Matisse, he traveled to the French town of Etretat on the Normandy Coast in 1950. There he made paintings and drawings reflecting his new, keener sense of the relationship between color and light. Schwartz returned to Etretat in 1960.

By the 1960s, he gradually restricted his work to a form of pointillism. Schwartz worked in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He was a member of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors and the American Abstract Artists. He has had solo retrospectives at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Providence Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum. His work has been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Institute, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum, among other institutions.

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
The Brooklyn Museum, New York City, NY
The Frick Collection, New York City, NY
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
New York Public Library, New York City, NY
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
Whitney Museum, New York City, NY See less