Buck Schiwetz (1898-1984)
Paintings
- Buck Schiwetz
- (1898-1984)
- Houston Artist
- Size: 12.5 x 22
- Frame: 25.5 x 34.5
- Medium: Ink & a little watercolor
- Dated 1962
- "Shrimp Basin, Galveston"
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- Buck Schiwetz
- (1898-1984)
- Houston Artist
- Size: 13.75 x 17.5
- Frame: 20.25 x 24.25
- Medium: Charcoal on Draft Paper
- "Dallas" Cityscape
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- Buck Schiwetz
- (1898-1984)
- Houston Artist
- Size: 11.25 x 13.5
- Frame: 17.75 x 19.5
- Medium: Watercolor on Paper
- Dated 1951
- "Gas Plant"
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- Buck Schiwetz
- (1898-1984)
- Houston Artist
- Size: 15 x 10.5
- Frame: 25 x 19
- Medium: Drawing
- "City Streets"
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- Buck Schiwetz
- (1898-1984)
- Houston Artist
- Size: 10 x 8
- Frame: 13 x 15
- Medium: Lithograph
- unsigned
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- Buck Schiwetz
- (1898-1984)
- Houston Artist
- Size: 10 x 15.5
- Frame: 16.5 x 22
- Medium: Charcoal on Paper unsigned from the collection of a Schiwetz Family Member.
- 1961
- "Dallas" Cityscape. Published Illustration.
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- Buck Schiwetz
- (1898-1984)
- Houston Artist
- Size: 10.5 x 14
- Frame: 17 x 20.5
- Medium: Watercolor on Paper
- Dated 1946
- "Talco School" High School Talco Texas
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- Buck Schiwetz
- (1898-1984)
- Houston Artist
- Size: 16 x 20
- Frame: 23 x 26.25
- Medium: Pencil Drawing
- Dated 1965
- "The Schreiner House Kerrville Texas"
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- Buck Schiwetz
- (1898-1984)
- Houston Artist
- "Original Study for the Humble Mural" One of eight
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- Buck Schiwetz
- (1898-1984)
- Houston Artist
- Medium: Mixed
- Dated 1954
- "Galveston Bay Group"
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- Buck Schiwetz
- (1898-1984)
- Houston Artist
- Size: 9 x 14
- Frame: 16.5 x 21
- Medium: Lithograph
- 1930s
- "Prairie Town"
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- Buck Schiwetz
- (1898-1984)
- Houston Artist
- Size: 7.5 x 8
- Frame: 13.5 x 14
- Medium: Watercolor on Paper
- "Pelican"
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- Buck Schiwetz
- (1898-1984)
- Houston Artist
- Size: 32 x 19
- Frame: 43 x 28
- Medium: Watercolor
- Dated 1964
- "The Gathering Spot" Blackbirds, Windmill, Hereford Cattle & More
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- Buck Schiwetz
- (1898-1984)
- Houston Artist
- Size: 9.5 x 14
- Frame: 16 x 20.5
- Medium: Watercolor & Mixed Media on Paper
- "Houma Gas Plant"
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- Buck Schiwetz
- (1898-1984)
- Houston Artist
- Size: 6.5 x 9
- Medium: Watercolor
- Dated 1957
- "Boca Chica" The Southernmost tip of Texas near Cameron County.
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- Buck Schiwetz
- (1898-1984)
- Houston Artist
- Medium: Watercolor & Mixed Media on Paper
- "One of eight Studies for the Humble Mural"
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- Buck Schiwetz
- (1898-1984)
- Houston Artist
- Medium: Watercolor & Mixed Media on Paper
- "One of eight Studies for the Humble Mural"
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- Buck Schiwetz
- (1898-1984)
- Houston Artist
- Medium: Watercolor & Mixed Media on Paper
- "One of eight Studies for the Humble Mural"
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- Buck Schiwetz
- (1898-1984)
- Houston Artist
- Size: 11.5 x 29
- Frame: 18 x 34.25
- Medium: Mixed Media, Oil, Gouache, Watercolor
- Dated 1950
- "Intercoastal Canal"
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- Buck Schiwetz
- (1898-1984)
- Houston Artist
- Size: 12 x 18
- Frame: 20 x 27
- Medium: Watercolor & Mixed
- Date 7/20/65
- "Crab Shack"
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- Buck Schiwetz
- (1898-1984)
- Houston Artist
- Size: 9 x 11.75
- Frame: 15.25 x 17.75
- Medium: Watercolor on Paper
- "Oil Field"
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- Buck Schiwetz
- (1898-1984)
- Houston Artist
- Size: 10 x 17 1/2
- Frame: 20 x 27
- Medium: Pencil and White Wash
- "West Texas Gold" Oil
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- Buck Schiwetz
- (1898-1984)
- Houston Artist
- Size: 16 x 20
- Frame: 26 x 29
- Medium: Pencil
- Dated 1965
- "Vereins Kirche" Fredericksburg Texas
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- Buck Schiwetz
- (1898-1984)
- Houston Artist
- Size: 15 1/2 X 25 1/2
- Frame: 29 1/2 X 39 1/2
- Medium: Watercolor Mixed Media
- 1952
- "Fred's Place" Boca Chica Tex. 1952 Cameron County Texas
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- Buck Schiwetz
- (1898-1984)
- Houston Artist
- Size: 12 x 19
- Frame: 22 x 29
- Medium: Ink & Pencil
- Dated 1958
- "La Bahia - Goliad"
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- Buck Schiwetz
- (1898-1984)
- Houston Artist
- Size: 15 1/2 X 25 1/2
- Frame: 29 1/2 X 39 1/2
- Medium: Watercolor Mixed Media
- 1952
- "Fred's Place" Boca Chica Tex. 1952 Cameron County Texas
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- Buck Schiwetz
- (1898-1984)
- Houston Artist
- Size: 23 x 13
- Frame: 30 x 20
- Medium: Mixed Media
- Dated 1958
- "Intercoastal Canal Group Freeport"
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- Buck Schiwetz
- (1898-1984)
- Houston Artist
- Size: 15 x 20
- Frame: 21 x 26
- Medium: Drawing with color Highlights
- Dated 1934
- "First July Monday" Castroville TX
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- Buck Schiwetz
- (1898-1984)
- Houston Artist
- Size: 10.5 x 13.5
- Frame: 18 x 21
- Medium: Watercolor
- 1952
- Janitzio on Lake Patzcuaro, Mex
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- Buck Schiwetz
- (1898-1984)
- Houston Artist
- Size: 15x20
- Frame: 22x27
- Medium: Watercolor
- 1972
- Houston Ship Channel
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- Buck Schiwetz
- (1898-1984)
- Houston Artist
- Size: 14 x 20
- Frame: 17.5 x 23.25
- Medium: Watercolor Mixed Media
- Dated 1950
- "March Day Galveston"
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Biography
Buck Schiwetz(1898-1984) Houston Artist
Edward Muegge Schiwetz was a painter whose work recorded the state of Texas from the country to the city. In addition, Schiwetz was a magazine illustrator, graphic artist, writer, preservationist, and architect.Edward Schiwetz was born and raised in Cuero, Texas and learned to draw and paint under the instruction of his mother. He graduated from Cuero High School (1916) and received a baccalaureate in architecture from Texas A & M college, College Station, Texas (1921). In1928, Schiwetz moved to New York City where he studied lithography and etching at the Art Students League. During this time he successfully marketed his work to publications including Scribner's, House Beautiful and the Architectural Record. Schiwetz returned to Texas in 1929 and became an art director and partner in the successful Houston advertising agency of Franke, Wilkinson, and Schiwetz. After retiring from the advertising agency in 1966, he devoted himself almost entirely to painting and drawing. In 1974, he moved to College Station where he worked on campus scenes at his alma mater.The Houston Art League honored Schiwetz in a festive tribute the year before his death and named him Texas Artist of the Year.He died in Cuero, Texas in 1984.Schiwetz was a member of the Associated Artists of Houston; California Water Color Society; Contemporary Arts Association; Southern States Art League; Texas Society of Architects; Texas Fine Arts Association* and the Texas Watercolor Society.Exhibitions included American Watercolor Society; Philadelphia Watercolor Society; Art Institute of Chicago; Southern States Art League Annual Exhibition; Texas Painting and Sculpture Annual Exhibition; Western Watercolor Exhibition, San Francisco and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.
