Andrew Thomas Schwartz 1867-1942

Andrew Thomas Schwartz was born in 1867 in Louisville, Kentucky. He began his formal artistic training with Frank Duveneck at the Cincinnati Art Academy in 1890 and then went on to study with H. Siddons Mowbray at the Art Students League in New York. It was during Schwartz's time at the Art Students League that he was awarded the Lazarus Scholarship for mural painting. 

With this scholarship, Schwartz travelled abroad, spending three years in Italy, France, Germany, and England. The excellent body of work which Schwartz produced during this time earned him a solo exhibition at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.

The influential art critic and art historian Royal Cortissoz wrote that Schwartz "had charm as well as craftsmanship." Indeed, throughout his career, Schwartz painted murals for numerous institutions including the New York Courthouse and the Atkins Museum of Fine Art in Kansas City and exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the National Academy of Design, just to name a few.