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Biography shared in BMC bulletin in 1946,
"LEONARD SCHWARTZ, Interested in sculpture since high school, worked at it alone for a while, then studied for a year with Sam Cashwan, a modern sculptor, in Detroit. He attended Wayne University for two years, majoring in philosophy and art, and spent 2 ½ years in the Navy. After his discharge, he had his own studio in Taos, New Mexico, in New York, and at Oberlin, where he studied philosophy and art, until coming to BMC. While there he held a one-man exhibition at the Oberlin Museum; he now has an open-air studio on the terrace below the studios building."
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