Albert Sway, New York Social Realist Etching Cease To Do Evil Learn To Do Well WPA Artist NYC

18.5×15.5, 6.25 x 5 mat cut size. edition 1/6 signed and dated.

Albert Sway (b.1913)
Painter, illustrator, etcher, lithographer, cartoonist and teacher, Albert Sway was born in Cincinnati in 1913. He studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy and the Art Student’s League in New York City.

Exhibitions:
Art Institute of Chicago, 1936, 1938
Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts Annual, 1936
Corcoran Gallery biennial, 1939
Golden Gate Exposition, San Francisco, 1939
Paris Salon, 1937
Stockholm, Sweden, 1937-38
Society of Independent Artists, 1938
World’s Fair, New York, 1939
Library of Congress, 1943-45
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1951
Society of American Graphic Artists, 1951-on
Royal Society of Painters, Etchers & Engravers, London, England, 1954
Am.-Japan Contemporary Print Exhib., Tokyo, 1967.

Awards:
first prize in graphics, Cincinnati Mus. Assn., 1939.