Ellen Rosalie Simon (April 15, 1916 – November 19, 2011) was a Canadian stained-glass artist, illustrator and printmaker.[1][2]
Ellen R. Simon | |
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| Born | Ellen Rosalie Simon April 15, 1916 Toronto, Ontario |
| Died | November 19, 2011 (aged 95) Amesbury, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Education | Ontario College of Art, Toronto where she studied with Yvonne McKague Housser, Franklin Carmichael, and Gustave and Emmanuel Hahn), the Art Students League of New York; the New School for Social Research, Toronto; and the Bank Street School Writers Laboratory, Ottawa. |
Biography
editEllen Simon was born in Toronto and studied art at the Ontario College of Art, Toronto with Yvonne McKague Housser, among others; the Art Students League of New York (1936-1940);[3] and the New School for Social Research in Toronto.[4] She studied stained-glass by apprenticing with Yvonne Williams in Toronto and with the Joep Nicolas Studio in the Netherlands.[4]
She was a modern artist who sought to convey political and social issues through her graphics and book or magazine illustrations.[4] In 1937, she made lithographs such as Men (National Gallery of Canada), reproduced in the New Frontier magazine,[5] a monthly Toronto magazine of literature and social criticism (1936-1937) begun in the Depression.[6]
Her major work was as a creator of stained-glass windows for churches, synagogues and universities. For almost 40 years she was a colleague of Yvonne Williams and worked in her Toronto studio at commissions in Canada and the U.S.A.[7] Among the churches for which she created the stained glass along with Yvonne Williams and Rosemary Kilbourne is St. Michael & All Angels Church in Toronto.[8] Her graphics are in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada.[4] Ellen Simon taught at Riverside Church, New York from 1965 on.[3]
Ellen Simon died on November 19, 2011, in Amesbury, Massachusetts.
References
edit- ^ Government of Canada, Canadian Heritage. "Artists in Canada". app.pch.gc.ca. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
- ^ "Ellen Rosalie Simon". National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
- ^ a b Bradfield, Helen (1970). Art Gallery of Ontario: the Canadian Collection. Toronto: McGraw Hill. ISBN 0070925046. Retrieved April 8, 2021.
- ^ a b c d "Ellen Simon". www.archeion.ca. Trinity College Archives. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
- ^ Carney, Lora Senechal (2010). "Modern Art, the Local and the Global". The Visual Arts in Canada: the Twentieth Century. Foss, Brian., Paikowsky, Sandra., Whitelaw, Anne (eds.). Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press. pp. 105–106. ISBN 978-0-19-542125-5.
- ^ Sutherland 1989, p. 128.
- ^ "Ellen R. Simon". legacy.com. NY Times. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
- ^ "St. Michael & All Angels Church, Toronto". /www.stmichaelonstclair.com. St. Michael & All Angels Church. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
External links
editBibliography
edit- Crawford, Gail (1998). A Fine Line: Studio Crafts in Ontario from 1930 to the Present. Dundurn. p. 208. ISBN 1459725735. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
- Sutherland, Fraser (1989). The Monthly Epic: A History of Canadian Magazines, 1789-1989. Toronto: Fitzhenry & Whiteside. Retrieved December 30, 2020.