Rosemary Zwick

{{Short description|American printmaker and sculptor}}

{{infobox artist

| name = Rosemary Zwick

| birth_date = 1925

| death_date = {{death year and age|1995|1925}}

| nationality = American

| known_for = Printmaking, sculpture

| education = {{unbulleted list|University of Iowa|School of the Art Institute of Chicago|DePaul University|University of Illinois at Chicago}}

| spouse = Sidney Zwick

}}

Rosemary Zwick (1925–1995) was an American printmaker and sculptor.

Born in Chicago, Zwick received her BFA at the University of Iowa in 1945; her teachers there included Phillip Guston and Humberto Albrizio. She took evening classes in printmaking with Max Kahn at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1946 to 1947; from 1947 to 1948 she took education courses at DePaul University, and in 1979 she studied aesthetics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She exhibited work around the United States, and created a number of ceramic reliefs and other commissions for public spaces in Michigan and Illinois. Her work is in various public and private collections{{cite book |author1= |url=https://archive.org/details/northamericanwom00hellrich/page/598/mode/2up?q=%22rosemary+Zwick%22 |title=North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary |publisher=Garland Publishing |year=1995 |isbn=9780824060497 |editor-last=Heller |editor-first=Jules |location=New York |pages=599 |language=en |oclc=31865530 |editor-last2=Heller |editor-first2=Nancy G. |via=Internet Archive}} including the Art Institute of Chicago{{Cite web |date= |title=Rosemary Zwick |url=https://www.artic.edu/artists/73881/rosemary-zwick |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230204113821/https://www.artic.edu/artists/73881/rosemary-zwick |archive-date=4 February 2023 |access-date=11 March 2024 |website=Art Institute of Chicago |language=en}} and the Brooklyn Museum.{{Cite web |title=Fantasy by Rosemary Zwick (1954) |url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/68968 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230103150446/https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/68968 |archive-date=3 January 2023 |access-date=11 March 2024 |website=Brooklyn Museum}} With her mother, Ida K. Pearce, Zwick ran the 4 Arts Gallery in Evanston from 1962 to 1980.{{Cite journal |last= |first= |date=26 October 1967 |title=Art winners show variety in dimension |url=https://jstor.org/stable/community.34341832 |journal=The Skyscraper |language=English |publisher=Mundelein College |volume=XXXVIII |issue=4 |pages=1 |jstor=community.34341832 |jstor-access=free}} She and her husband, Sidney Zwick, had four children, Andrew, Stephen, Somara, and Marissa.{{cite web |last=Puente |first=Teresa |date=5 February 1995 |title=Rosemary Zwick, Artist Known For Varied Styles In Multimedia |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1995/02/05/rosemary-zwick-artist-known-for-varied-styles-in-multimedia/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170131185627/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1995-02-05/news/9502050262_1_sculpture-and-crafts-art-institute-arts-gallery |archive-date=31 January 2017 |access-date=19 January 2017 |website=Chicago Tribune |publisher=}}