Both color crayons and pencil on paper. One 305x216 mm; 12x8 1/2 inches; the other 178x280 mm; 7x11 inches. Both initialed in pencil, lower recto. One with a handwritten exhibition record on the verso, including the Kansas City Art Institute, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1932-33.
Schwartz (1896-1977) was a Russian born American artist who studied at the Vilna Art School as well as the Art Institute of Chicago. Through the 1920s, Schwartz supported his tuition as a painting student by singing principle tenor roles in both vaudevillian and operatic peformances. His career as a musician continued to influence his work as a painter and his projects have been closely sourced to the artistic philosophies of Wassily Kandinsky, who also explored the relationships between music, spirituality, color and form.
