Sarah Belchetz-Swenson (née Belchetz; May 24, 1938 – September 12, 2021) was a painter, printmaker, and portraitist.
[1] Belchetz-Swenson was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1938, the daughter of Arnold and Pearl Belchetz.
She majored in studio art at Oberlin College, focusing on modern and historical painting and printing techniques.
[2] She briefly engaged with the New York art scene, supported by fellow artists, including her cousin Rudolf Baranik (who wrote the introduction to her Holocaust memorial Revisions)[3] and the feminist painter May Stevens.
[citation needed] Rites, Belchetz-Swenson's most widely-exhibited work,[4][5] is a series of fourteen paintings, four monotypes, and four lithographs,[6] linking scenes from the lives of contemporary women and girls with images from the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii.