![]() ![]() Collec-tions of Universities of Illinois, Chicago, Nebraska, Montana, Wyoming, Minne-sota, Monticello College, Bradley, Chicago Public Schools. Henry Gallery Des Moines Art Center Montclair Art Museum Elgin Academy Detroit Insti-tute of Arts Musee Julf, Paris, France En Herod Museum Tel Aviv Museum, Israel, Bir-Bidjan Museum, Russia. He is represented in the following permanent public collections the Art Institute of Chicago the San Francisco Museum the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia Santa Barbara Museum or Art Denver Art Museum Art Alliance of Philadelphia Encyclopedia Britannica, American Peoples Encyclopedia: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts Library of Congress and Department of Labor, Washington. His works are also included in many important private collections. Schwartz's work has been exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum or Art Museum of Modern Art Whitney Museum Pennsylvania Academy Art Institute of Chicago Joslyn Museum Oklahoma Museum Dallas Public Museum and State Muse-um of Illinois Associated Artists Gallery and numerous other museums. Schwartz worked in oils, watercolor, lithography, and as a sculptor. Since that time his work has been seen in national and international exhibitions held in this country and abroad. In 1912, the year after graduation from the School at the Chicago Art Institute (with honors in life study, portraiture and general excellence in painting), he made his American debut at the an-nual show of Artists of Chicago and Vicinity. To help support himself, he worked 16 hours a day waiting on tables, ushering in theatres, singing in concerts and operas. At the age or six-teen he immigrated to America and three years later entered the Art Institute of Chicago where he was awarded a schol-arship. He studied at the Vilna Art School in Russia from 1908 to 1912. 1896 and died in Chicago February 10, 1977. William Samuel Schwartz was born in Smorgen, Russia on February 23. ![]()
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