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After a hiatus of a few years to concentrate on my teaching I have again begun to paint and to exhibit.
In addition to the baseball work that I am perhaps best known for, I have been painting landscapes, particularly the area of East Vincent Township where I grew up and again live. As the area grows and "progress" occurs, more and more of these farms and fields are being developed. I am attempting to capture them before they vanish.
Whether I am painting a landscape or baseball player or stadium my interest is in portraying light. How it strikes the objects in the field of vision and the colors, shadows and tones that result are as much my subject as are the forms of ball players or trees and barns.
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"Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" This was taken by my friend, Al, a Sports Illustrated photographer, |
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| News: Working on several commissions. Also in planning stages for an exhibit in the Spring City area with several other artists, spring 2012(?). |
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Exhibits (since 1990)
2011 "Score" Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA 2010 FanFest 2010 AllStar Game, Los Angeles, Ca 2007 Community Music School, Collegeville, PA 2002 Christopher Dock Mennonite High School Alumni Show 2000 Mennonite Heritage Center, Harleysville, PA 1999 Gallery 53, Cooperstown, NY 1998 Gallery 53, Cooperstown, NY 1997 Bridge Street Fine Arts & Antiques, Phoenixville, PA Gallery 53, Cooperstown, NY 1996 Gallery 53, Cooperstown, NY 1995 Gallery 53, Cooperstown, NY 1994 American Artist Gallery, Devon, PA The Hill School, Pottstown, PA "The Art of the Game", Gallery 53, Cooperstown NY 1993 A Whole New Ballgame", Gallery 53, Cooperstown, NY PNC Bank Headquarters, Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia Water Color Club 74th Annual, Philadelphia., PA 1992 Play Ball!”, Gallery 53, Cooperstown, NY 1991 People’s Place Gallery, Lancaster,PA Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA “Extra Innings”, Gallery 53, Cooperstown, NY 1990 Gross-McLeaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA “Top of the Ninth”, Gallery 53, Cooperstown, NY Provident Bank Headquarters, Philadelphia, PA “Tennis in Art”, Commerce Square, Philadelphia..., PA Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, N.Y.
I, with wife Rachel Martin, son Konrad and daughter Kathryn live in the Spring City area of Chester County, PA. I am currently the art instructor at Christopher Dock Mennonite H.S in Lansdale, Pa. |
Collections include;
• Baseball Hall of Fame • Philadelphia Reserve Bank • Jefferson University, Philadelphia • Philadelphia Phillies • Reading Phillies • Bob Feller Museum, Iowa • Eastern Mennoonite University
Clients have included the Philadelphia Phillies, the Reading Phillies, The Baseball Hall of Fame, Sports Channel, Mitchell & Ness Nostalgia Co. and Ebbets Field Flannels.
Publications that have featured Swartz's work include Baseball, A Treasury of Art & Literature, the encyclopedia Everything Baseball, America Illustrated, Philly Sport, The Fan and the 1994 desk diary Baseball Glory Baseball Dreams published by American Heritage.
Designs include: the '94 All Star Game souvenir cup, as well as other team cups around the league; the Yankees, Mets. Twins, Tigers, Royals and others. In addition his work has been used for promotional prints, program covers, pennants and T- shirts.
A partial listing of "thank yous":
my wife and family, my parents, sister Tina, and brother Ted with whom I share much including a love of baseball, Peter Clark and the late Bill Guilfoile at the Baseball Hall of Fame, Peter Capalino from Mitchell & Ness and Jerry Cohen at Ebbets Field Flannels, Dennis Manion, Al Tielemans, Sydney Waller and the baseball artists from Gallery 53, Doug Walker, Gross-McCleaf Gallery, the many clients and patrons, and to all those who have enjoyed my gift as much as I.
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