BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINOUS LANDSCAPE PAINTING circa 1920’s ANDREW THOMAS SCHWARTZ (AMERICAN, 1867-1942)

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 Painting  depicting the rolling hills of a field with gently rolling mountains in the distance.
oilon canvas 20 x 25

Signed lower left "ANDREW T SCHWARTZ." Housed in a period, possibly original wooden frame. 

Andrew T. Schwartz was born in Louisville, Kentucky.   In 1890, he studied with  Frank Duveneck at the Cincinnati ArtAcademy,later with H. Siddons Mowbray at the Art Students League in New York He  was awarded the Lazarus Scholarship which resulted in three years of study in Italy, France, Germany and England.  He returned to the United States to assist his teacher Mowbray in decorating the University Club and J. P. Morgan's private library in New York.  He later worked independently and developed a following as a mural painter.  His reputation was certainly enhanced by the mural Christ, the Good Shepherd  for the Baptist Church in South Londonderry, Vermont, which was considered at the time one of the best examples of mural painting. Other murals were painted for the Courthouse of New York, the New York YMCA, the Atkins Museum of Fine Art in Kansas City and the Kansas City Life Insurance Company Building. He exhibited extensively at the National Academy of Design, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, and other major cities.
He was a member of the National Society of Mural Painters, the Salmagundi Club, the Architectural League of New York, Allied Artists of America, American Watercolor Society, the Circolo Artistico of Rome, Italy, and the Union International Des Beaux Arts et Des Lettres of Paris, 

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