Henry Orenstein (painter)
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Henry Orenstein (1918 - 2008) was a Canadian artist, specializing in easel paintings, murals and set design. He was mentioned in Barry Lord's The History of Painting in Canada: Toward a People's Art. He went on to become a set designer for the CBC in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
[edit] Family
He was married to Joan Orenstein, a noted Canadian actress; he had five daughters. Sarah Orenstein (a Dora Award Winner), his youngest daughter, played a sharp-tongued feminist filmmaker in Brad Fraser's dark comedy, Cold Meat Party (2003).
[edit] External links
- "The Box"
- "Henry Orenstein: the talk of the town"
- excerpt from the Journal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (1948).
- Orenstein biodata
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