Artist: Gerald Schwartz
Title: Late Afternoon Shadows
Size: 30" x 30"
Edition: Artist Signed and Numbered, Limited Edition
Medium: Giclee on Canvas - Gallery Wrap Stretched (Ready to hang)
About the Artist: The open road, an expanse of sky, storm clouds in the distance, Diana Krall on the radio; Gerald Schwartz sets out on one of his road trips. Whether returning from an arts festival, or just a solo drive, he takes in the world around him and breathes in the cool, clear air of the heartland. He photographs sun drenched skies, farm houses, solitary road signs and clouds...always the clouds. Once home in Arizona, the visions of his travels still occupying his mind, Gerald looks back through his photographs & begins to paint. The canvas transforms with long roads, stretched out beneath big blue skies. Sunsets seem to set the canvas on fire. And Gerald's rain slicked streets are so real you can almost smell the road.

Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1940, Gerald Schwartz began his life as an artist at sixteen when his father took him to an art store. Gerald noticed a Salvador Dali print on the wall and having never seen anything like this before, turned to his father & said, “I too want to be an artist.” Eloquent & absolute, the decision was made and the journey began. Schwartz spent six years at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, working in inks, pastels, watercolors & acrylics. He went on to work for a fashion magazine, then worked as an illustrator on a book presented at the 1984 Winter Olympics. With life leading him in many directions, he traveled & explored his creative options, but the artist remained, and he continued to paint.

At the age of forty-five, Gerald decided to forgo all other things in his life to simply live & work as an artist. Working exclusively with oils, he started to develop his unique photo realistic style and his signature genre. Schwartz takes us to a place we all know, a place we all love; the open roads, shorelines and small towns of America. Each piece evokes emotion in the viewer, a reminder of where we have been and where we are going, always at home in the tranquillity of the vast, Americana landscapes. Gerald lives in Arizona with his wife, Gloria. He has two children and three grandchildren. Gerald paints according to his motto: “The Sky’s the limit.”