William S. Schwartz (1896–1977)

WILLIAM S. SCHWARTZ (1896–1977)
Old Country Bazaar, 1926
Oil on canvas, 36 x 42 in.
Signed, dated, and inscribed (at lower right): WILLIAM S. SCHWARTZ 1926; (on the back): “OLD COUNTRY BAZAAR” / BY / WILLIAM S. SCHWARTZ / 1926

RECORDED: C. H. Bonte, “122nd Annual opens at Pennsylvania Academy,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, Jan. 30, 1927

EXHIBITED: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1926, The Thirty-Ninth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, no. 174 // The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1927, The One-Hundred-and-Twenty Second Annual Exhibition, p. 37 no. 181 // The Chicago Culture Club, 1927 // Bethany College of Fine Arts, Lindsborg, Kansas, 1928, Annual Art Festival // University of Missouri, Columbia, 1928 // Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan; Illinois State Museum, Springfield; and State of Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago, 1984–86, The Paintings, Drawings, and Lithographs of William S. Schwartz (1896–1977), pp. 11, 21 no. 8, illus. on cover in color

EX COLL.: the artist; to his estate, 1977