Davis f schwartz oil paintings

Davis Francis Schwartz 1879 - 1969
Boys Fishing on the Bay 1940
Mt. Tamalpais
Embarking Schooner
California Landscape with Trees
Mission San Antonio de Padua
San Francisco Bay Sailing

Davis Francis Schwartz was born in Paris, Kentucky in 1879.  He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, and then at art schools in Dayton and Cleveland, Ohio.

He then spent three years in Montreal studying under Adam S. Scott.  He worked as a commercial illustrator in Ohio for the Cleveland Plain Dealer.  He moved to California in 1903 and worked for The Los Angeles Times before moving to San Francisco in 1924.  In 1924 he was elected artist for the State Bord of Harbor Commissioners.

Davis Schwartz established his studio in the Ferry Building and for 30 years acted as custodian of the huge relief map of the State of California there. The relief map was huge, two football fields in length, and required an artist's full time