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Born | Ellen Rosalie Simon April 15, 1916
Toronto, Ontario |
Died | November 19, 2011
Amesbury, Massachusetts, U.S. | (aged 95)
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. |
Ellen Rosalie Simon (April 15, 1916 – November 19, 2011) was a Canadian stained-glass artist, illustrator and printmaker. [1] [2]
Ellen 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.
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Ellen R. Simon | |
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Born | Ellen Rosalie Simon April 15, 1916
Toronto, Ontario |
Died | November 19, 2011
Amesbury, Massachusetts, U.S. | (aged 95)
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. |
Ellen Rosalie Simon (April 15, 1916 – November 19, 2011) was a Canadian stained-glass artist, illustrator and printmaker. [1] [2]
Ellen 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.
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