Kiddush Levana - Blessing the New Moon.

Born in New York City, Schwab spent his childhood years in Bishopville, South Carolina, returning to New York to attend the High School of Music and Art. After serving in the U.S. Navy during WWII, Schwab worked as a diamond cutter. Schwab’s art features Bedouin women and Orthodox Jewish men - both in their distinctive dress; and moods of loneliness, desolation, mystery and anxiety. This painting and much of Schwab’s work clearly channels the great American artist Edward Hopper.