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Carl Schwartz, born in Detroit, Michigan, is a painter and print-maker, who currently resides in Fort Meyers, Florida. He is a realist, whose work shows the influence of both abstract expressionism and cubism.
For almost thirty years, Schwartz taught figure drawing and painting in Chicago at the North Shore Art League, until moving to Florida in 1984. There he resumed teaching at Edison Community College and at Florida Gulf Coast University. At the home he shares with his wife Dinah Schwartz, he raises Koi, a type of Oriental goldfish, which, along with water lilies, are often subjects in his art.
Schwartz describes himself as a painter of light, "intrigued and fascinated with form. To me, there are two worlds The one we live in and the one that I create. Painting is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover both of these worlds".
He has been the recipient of several awards, including the Logan Medal from the Art Institute of Chicago, and his works have been exhibited at that Institutes S&R Gallery in Chicago, as well as at the Illinois State Museum, and numerous other shows.
His art is in many permanent collections, including The Smithsonian Institution, and the university collections of: Michigan State, Ball State, Loyola, Nevada, Minnesota, and Chicago. He is also in the corporate collections of: Kemper Insurance, AT&T, Sears, Delta Airlines, and Beatrice Foods. Various periodicals and magazines, including Readers Digest and Playboy, have published his work, and he is listed in Whos Who in American Art. Schwartz is a member of A.P.A. (Alliance of Professional Artists) and FLAG (Florida Artists Group).
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