Seymour Swetzoff

In U.S. Shri Nathji met a man Seymour Swetzoff to whom He said: “Seymour – may you see more!” It is written in Mahagranth – God Incarnate on page 1080, that this man was already attached to a Guru but become greatly attracted to Shri Nath ji. He shut his shop for the whole day and cooked food for Shri Nathji  at the latter’s residence.  It was an illustration of Shri Nathji’s saying: "The spiritual life cannot bear fruit until you have served a holy personage with your own hands! Sewa-Service is the surest means of salvation in this age."

Seymour Swetzoff was trained as a painter. An Artist Boris Mirski taught him framing and encouraged him to make small painting. Seymour was a visionary painter, involved in Eastern Religions and inspired by Redon. He used to attend the Vedanta Centre in Boston, a branch of Ram Krishna mission founded by Swami Vivekananda. In 1948 he opened his own framing shop and gallery by name of Frame Shop Gallery at Huntington Avenue in partnership with his brother Hymen Swetzoff, which become very popular. In 1953 Hyman become independent and moves shop to Newburry street. Seymour starts his own gallery and frame shop. He used to sell painting of some famous local artists as well. I have given the picture of a painting by popular artist Fassett Mary Crocker which was displayed at Seymour’s gallery.

 Seymour Swetzoff was born on April 6, 1918. His wife was Barbara (Dawe) Swetzoff. He had two sons -  Jonathan D. Swetzoff who settle in Danvers and Jeremy D. Swetzoff who settled in Virginia. His brother was Samuel Swetzoff of West Palm Beach, Florida. He had three grand childern Jeremy, Jason and Nicole. His residence was at Arlington, Middlesex County, MA (Massachusetts), 02474. He died on March 24, 2003 at 85 years of age at Arlington.