In December 1912 she married painter Jerome Blum in Paris, France.
[3] They traveled together to Corsica, Cuba, China, Japan, Tahiti and eventually settled in Greenwich Village, New York City.
[4] In 1937, as the assistant of Dr. Franz Weidenreich, she worked on reconstructing the skull of the Peking Man, a Homo erectus hominid, on a paleontological dig in China.
She also sculpted a bust of Jesuit priest Teilhard de Chardin, who was the geologist on the dig.
[6] Swan died in New York City ten years after the death of de Chardin.