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Ellen Rosalie Simon

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Ellen R. Simon
Born
Ellen Rosalie Simon

(1916-04-15)April 15, 1916
Toronto, Ontario
DiedNovember 19, 2011(2011-11-19) (aged 95)
EducationOntario 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]

Biography

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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.

References

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  1. ^ Government of Canada, Canadian Heritage. "Artists in Canada". app.pch.gc.ca. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
  2. ^ "Ellen Rosalie Simon". National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
  3. ^ a b Bradfield, Helen (1970). Art Gallery of Ontario: the Canadian Collection. Toronto: McGraw Hill. ISBN 0070925046. Retrieved April 8, 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d "Ellen Simon". www.archeion.ca. Trinity College Archives. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Sutherland 1989, p. 128.
  7. ^ "Ellen R. Simon". legacy.com. NY Times. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
  8. ^ "St. Michael & All Angels Church, Toronto". /www.stmichaelonstclair.com. St. Michael & All Angels Church. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
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