BIOGRAPHY

Antonín Švehla was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1935. Because of his family's political prominence during the early Republic of Czechoslovakia he was prevented from continuing a formal education after 8th grade under the communist regime that started in 1948. Eventually, he managed to leave for Germany and later settled in United States of America.

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Tony received his MFA from The George Washington University and taught art at McKinley High School in Washington, DC's inner city for thirty years.

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Although he has produced art throughout his life Tony has not routinely shown his work in public. He has donated his paintings on rare occasions to numerous charitable auction events. Three of them decorate the entry wall of a cancer center in Savannah, Georgia. In addition, his abstract expressionism paintings of various sizes decorate private homes in England, France, Czech Republic, Maryland, Washington, DC, Virginia, New York City.

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Influenced by the Washington Color School movement, his works are non-objective arrangement of colors.