New York artist Daniel Bennett Schwartz presents his view of contemporary experience through the tools and techniques of Traditional Realism. He attended the High School of Music and Art, the Art Students League and graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design. He has had eleven solo exhibitions in Manhattan and participated in group shows both here and abroad. His work is included in private and public collections. In 1977 he was honoured by becoming a Painter/Elect to the National Academy. Believing that illustration can be an extension of an artist’s serious preoccupations, Schwartz was a pioneer in the wider use of quality art in magazines. His subjects ranged from portraits of professional athletes and the personalities of the Paris “New Wave” in the 1950s, to the emerging teen culture of the 1960s to industrial American and reportage in Southeast Asia in the 1970s. He set a high standard for editorial art and was awarded eleven gold medals from the Society of Illustrators. His work on “Genocide”, in the early 1980s was the last major illustration project he undertook before resuming painting, exhibiting and teaching.