ANDREW T SCHWARTZ (1867-1942) Louisville Kentucky / Cincinnati / Frank Duveneck For Sale

Andrew Thomas Schwartz
(1867-1942)
Untitled (Farm Scene with Trees)Oil on Boardcirca 1930s19" x 15"Signed Lower Right
Frame Size: 22" x 18-1/4"A lovely summer landscape by this noted artist of a farm set among rolling hills with five large trees in the foreground dominating the painting. The painting, which is a nice example of Schwartz's landscape work, is in very good condition with no apparent defects and is housed in a gilt wood frame that is also in very good condition. It has been in our private collection for many years.IMPORTANT NOTE: SHIPPING ONLY WITHIN THE 48 CONTIGUOUS UNITED STATES. NO SHIPPING TO ALASKA OR HAWAII. NO INTERNATIONAL style="">

Andrew Thomas Schwartz was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1867. His early education was in the public schools of his hometown, where he showed great promise as an artist. In 1890, he began intense art study with Frank Duveneck at the Cincinnati Art Academy. He later studied with H. Siddons Mowbray at the Art Students League in New York, where he was awarded the Lazarus Scholarship for mural painting to study abroad, which resulted in three years of study in Italy, France, Germany, and England. He was, at the time, only the second person to win that award. His work from the Lazarus trip was the subject of an individual show at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. He returned to the United States to assist his teacher Mowbray in decorating the University Club and J. P. Morgan's private library in New York. He later worked independently and developed a following as a mural painter. His reputation was certainly enhanced by the mural Christ, the Good Shepherd for the Baptist Church in South Londonderry, Vermont, which was considered at the time one of the best examples of mural painting. Other murals were painted for the Courthouse of New York, the New York YMCA, the Atkins Museum of Fine Art in Kansas City, and the Kansas City Life Insurance Company Building.Schwartz also painted a number of other paintings, including both figurative and landscapes. Many of his landscapes are views of New England. He exhibited extensively at the National Academy of Design, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Institute inPittsburgh, and other major cities. He was a member of the National Society of Mural Painters, the Salmagundi Club, the Architectural League of New York, Allied Artists of America, American Watercolor Society, the Circolo Artistico of Rome, Italy, and the Union International Des Beaux Arts et Des Lettres of Paris, France. A memorial show of Schwartz's work was held at the Lotus Club of New York City in 1944 through the efforts of the sculptor, Charles Keck.