Discipline: Visual Art – painting

Robert Schwartz

Discipline: Visual Art – painting
Region: San Francisco, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962
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Robert Schwartz (1947-2000) was a San Francisco-based artist celebrated for his singular vision and technical virtuosity. He is best known for an extensive series of exquisitely painted miniatures, in gouache and in oil. Writing for artnet, Donald Kuspit called these miniatures “postmodern narratives...for connoisseurs” in which “everything exists in the full light of consciousness.” But in his drive to probe the heart of the matter Schwartz pursued the mastery of multiple techniques. This enabled him to exhibit work in a prodigious suite of media and formats and to leave behind a legacy that is as diverse as it is thought provoking and profound.

Studios

Adams

Robert Schwartz worked in the Adams studio.

Given to the MacDowell Association by Margaret Adams of Chicago, the half-timbered, stuccoed Adams Studio was designed by MacDowell Fellow and architect F. Tolles Chamberlin ca. 1914. Chamberlin was primarily a painter, but also provided designs for the Lodge and an early renovation of the main hall. The studio’s structural integrity was restored during a thorough renovation in…

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