Bidspirit auction | Aubrey Schwartz, American (1928-2019), Confidence

Aubrey Schwartz, American (1928-2019), Confidence Man, plate III from the portfolio The Midget and - Aubrey Schwartz American (1928-2019) Confidence Man, plate III from the portfolio The Midget and the Dwarf lithograph mounted to board Signed in pen lower right. Biography from Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Aubrey Schwartz: A great twentieth century American etcher and engraver, Aubrey Schwartz studied printmaking techniques at the Art Students League of New York and at the Brooklyn Museum Art School. His etchings, aquatints and drypoints have been exhibited at such major institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Guggenheim Museum. Aubrey Schwartz also was the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Print-making. In 1969, Aubrey Schwartz accepted a professorship at The State University of New York at Binghamton. He later served as Chair of its Department of Fine Art. Today the graphic art of Aubrey Schwartz is included in many major collections. Twenty-four of his original prints are included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Early in his career, Schwartz was inspired by the Expressionist art of Kathe Kollwitz, Ernst Barlach and Georges Rouault. As one can see in Elm, however, he developed a rich style all his own. Employing the complex aquatint technique where the image is constructed upon purely tonal (as opposed to linear) grounds, Aubrey Schwartz creates a masterpiece of dense atmospheric effects. The standing trunk of the long dead elm still generates its own presence and ?life?, and this Aubrey Schwartz has brilliantly rendered. Source: Art of the Print Website Submitted by: Deborah T. Haynes 29 1/2”H x 22”W (board)