Sahl Swarz

Who was Sahl Swarz?

Sahl Swarz was American sculptor and arts educator.

Sahl Swarz was born to Jewish emigrants from the Austrian part of the partitioned Poland to the United States.

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.

He taught sculpture at the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University.

Arts and Letters Awards in art winner, twice Guggenheim Fellowship recipient.

In 1978 he married sculptor Naoko Kumasaka, and they moved to live in Japan and later in Verona.

In 1998 he moved to Pietrasanta, Italy.