Andrew Thomas Schwartz

Andrew T. Schwartz was born in Louisville, Kentucky, where he attended public schools before beginning formal study with Frank Duveneck at the Cincinnati Art Academy in 1890. He later trained with Henry Siddons Mowbray at the Art Students League in New York, earning the Jacob H. Lazarus Scholarship for Mural Painting—only the second artist to receive the award—which allowed three years of study in Italy, France, Germany, and England. Work from this period was shown in a solo exhibition at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.

On his return, Schwartz assisted Mowbray on major commissions before establishing an independent career. Though he gained early recognition as a muralist, he also painted extensively on canvas, producing New England landscapes, figure studies, and decorative compositions praised for their clarity of design and cool, refreshing palette. He exhibited widely at leading institutions, including the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Institute, and the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition.

Active in both American and European art circles, Schwartz was a member of the National Society of Mural Painters, the Salmagundi Club, the Architectural League of New York, Allied Artists of America, the American Watercolor Society, the Circolo Artistico in Rome, and the Union International des Beaux-Arts et des Lettres in Paris.