Robert Schwartz, Scape, from Screen Prints 1970

A Chicago native, Robert Schwartz adopted San Francisco as his home soon after he arrived in 1971. He had graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago the preceding year and was quickly taken up by Robert Glauber and members of ‘The Hairy Who.’ The emerging gay culture and the social upheaval of the 1960s counterculture provided ample fodder for Schwartz’s penetrating and psychological works in which he exposes both the individual’s and society’s deepest fears and desires. Schwartz died unexpectedly in 2000, at age 54, of heart failure.
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