Aba Bayefsky
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| Born | April 7, 1923 Toronto, Ontario,Canada |
| Died | May 5, 2001(aged 78) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Aba BayefskyCMRCA(April 7, 1923 – May 5, 2001) was an artist and teacher.
Career
[edit]Bayefsky was born to aJewishfamily inToronto, Ontario,the second son of a Russian-born father and a Scottish-born mother.[1]He studied at theCentral Technical School.During his teens, he attended classes at the Children's Art Centre of theArt Gallery of Ontario,where he was encouraged by such artists asArthur Lismer,Erma Sutcliffe, Dorothy Medhurst, andA. Y. Jackson.He later studied at theAcadémie Julianin Paris.
Bayefsky enlisted in theRCAFin October, 1942, and was made aFlight Lieutenant.He was appointed anOfficial Second World War artistin December, 1944, assigned to depict airborne operations over north-westEurope.He entered theBergen-Belsen concentration campshortly after its liberation and recorded what he saw in sketchbooks (these were destroyed in a fire later).[2][3]
After the war, he was an instructor at theOntario College of Art.In 1958, he was made a member of theRoyal Canadian Academy of Artsand in 1979, he was made a member of theOrder of Canada.Throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s, Bayefsky maintained an interest in tattooing and produced a series of portraits of tattooed people from Toronto and Japan.[4]
References
[edit]- ^"Holocaust art of Aba Bayefsky".Canadian Museum of History.Retrieved27 September2018.
- ^Celinscak, Mark (2015).Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Concentration Camp.Toronto: University of Toronto Press.ISBN9781442615700.
- ^Murray, Joan (1981).Canadian Artists of the Second World War.Oshawa: Robert McLaughlin Gallery. p. 30.Retrieved23 July2022.
- ^Jelinski, Jamie (Spring 2018).""An Artist's View of Tattooing": Aba Bayefsky and the Tattoo Scenes of Toronto and Yokohama, 1978–86 ".Journal of Canadian Studies.52(2): 451–480.doi:10.3138/jcs.2017-0062.r2.S2CID150354531– via Project MUSE.
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- 1923 births
- 2001 deaths
- Canadian academics of fine arts
- Canadian people of Russian-Jewish descent
- Canadian people of Scottish descent
- Jewish Canadian artists
- 20th-century Canadian painters
- Canadian male painters
- Members of the Order of Canada
- Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
- Artists from Toronto
- Royal Canadian Air Force officers
- Canadian war artists
- Royal Canadian Air Force personnel of World War II
- 20th-century Canadian male artists
- World War II artists