Background
Sahl Swarz was born to Jewish emigrants from the Austrian part of the partitioned Poland to the United States.
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Sahl Swarz
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He studied under the instruction of Dorothea Denslow of the Clay Club, which has become the SculptureCenter, of which Swarz was assistant director during 1936-1948, where he also headed the welded sculpture department for years.
Career
Associate director Clay Club (now Sculpture Center), 1938-1954. Creative sculpture Italy, 1951-1963. Residence American Academy, Rome, 1955-1957.
Lecturer sculpture Columbia University, New York City, 1966-1968, assistant professor, 1969-1978. Visiting associate professor Brandies University, 1964. Instructor Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, 1964.
Instructor New School for Social Research, 1965, 66. Visiting lecturer art University Wisconsin, 1966. Trustee Museum Contemporary Sculpture, Tokyo.
Lecturer art department Nippon University, Tokyo, 1997.
Achievements
Membership
Chairman sculpture panel New Jersey Council on Arts. With Army of the United States, 1941-1945.
Connections
Married Naoco Kumasaka, May 1978.
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Nationality
United States