[7] When the marriage dissolved in March 1970, he spent two months at the Mendocino State Hospital before returning to Washington, D.C.[7] He moved to New York in 1980, and stopped making art around 1981.
[1][9] He was survived by his partner, artist Enid Sanford, his mother Eva (née Lasi) Schwebler, and two sisters.
[1][5][10] His work was part of the posthumous retrospective art exhibition, Yuri Schwebler: The Spiritual Plan (2020) curated by John James Anderson at the American University Museum.
[2] Other works include Range pole (1975) a plumb bob and a level placed in a glass and wood box;[2] and The Scale of the Horse (?)
[5] In a 1981 exhibition in the Hudson River Museum, Schwebler recreated of the art studios for sculptors Alexander Calder (In the Tracks of Calder), Piet Mondrian, Alberto Giacometti (Giacometti’s Table [Where Painting Meets Sculpture], 1981), David Smith and Constantin Brancusi but adding his own creativity on some of them.