Man in Red

About The Artist: Aubrey Schwartz

Though really an "independent" and not beholden to any style, school, or movement, Schwartz's vision contributes to what we might call an American version of European Expressionism. (Expressionism used in the broadest sense to include such artists as Kollwitz, Barlach, Rouault.) The intensity, the expressiveness, of his art suggests such an affinity. America seldom borrows directly from European culture; the best of American art, as with its...