Background
Schwarz, William Tefft was born on July 27, 1888 in Syracuse, New York, United States. Son of Adolph H. and Mary Cornela (Tefft) Schwarz.
Schwarz, William Tefft was born on July 27, 1888 in Syracuse, New York, United States. Son of Adolph H. and Mary Cornela (Tefft) Schwarz.
Syracuse University, 1909. Art education Colarossi and Julian academics, France, also in Spain. Pupil of Charles Hawthorne, Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Served as captain Sanitary corpus, United States army, 1917-1919. Appointed one of official artists of Advertising Educational Foundation. Head art department History of Surgery.
Assigned to take life masks members of Peace Conference Represented in official war drawings Smithsonian Institution and Army Medical Museum.
Murals in Utica (New York) Hotel, Pontiac Hotel, at Oswego, New York, Bancroft Hotel, at Worcester, Massachusetts, Fulton National Bank, at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Hotel Dennis, Atlantic City. Mural painting for British War Memorial, Paris.
Mural for Girl Scout headquarters (used also as international poster). Mural for General Price Hall, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
Murals for Onondaga County Savings Bank, Syracuse, New New York
Mural for Episcopal Academy, Overbrook, Pennsylvania. Murals for Apollo Theatre, Atlantic City. 7 murals in International Arcadia Restaurant, Philadelphia.
Murals for Manabar, Hotel Philadelphian, Presbyterian Home for State of Pennsylvania, Shriners’ Hospital for Crippled Children, and Shoemaker School (all Philadelphia).
Murals-New Engineers Club, New New York Murals Quaker Home, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Four murals for Petroleum Industry Building, New York World’s Fair. Mural Bennington History Museum.
Mural Anthony Wayne Inn, Narberth, Pennsylvania.
Served as captain Sanitary corpus, United States army, 1917-1919. Club, New York; Member Military Order Foreign Wars, Phi Gamma Delta. Clubs: Union League (Philadelphia).
Married Mabel Elizabeth Lowther, June 11, 1913. Children: Elizabeth Ann, Mary Tefft, Horace Wilkinson, Ada-May, Margaret Fairfield.