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Aba Bayefsky
drawing, painter
Canadian, (1923–2001)
Aba Bayefsky was born in Toronto. As a teenager, he studied at Toronto’s Central Technical School and at the Art Centre in Grange Park where Arthur Lismer was one of his instructors. Later, he studied at the Académie Julien in Paris, France. At the age of 20, he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and was appointed an Official War Artist a year later. The somber experiences of warfare and its aftermath, of the Belsen Concentration Camp and a Displaced Persons Camp he visited in 1947, outside of Milan, Italy, profoundly affected the artist thereafter. Over the course of his career, he was president of the Canadian Group of Painters and the Canadian Society of Graphic Art. He was an associate member of the Royal Canadian Academy. Having begun exhibiting in 1941 he had 42 solo exhibitions. From 1957 to 1988, Aba Bayefsky was an instructor at OCAD U. In 1979 Bayefsky was made a Member of the Order of Canada. Works by Aba Bayefsky are collected by The National Gallery and the Canadian War Museum, Ottawa, Canada; the École des beaux arts, Montréal, Canada; the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Hebrew Union College, Library Collection, New York, USA; The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; and Yad Vashem Museum, Jerusalem, Israel to name a few. His work has been exhibited throughout Canada, the USA, England, India, Nepal and Japan. In Toronto, his works are found in government buildings, schools and synagogues throughout the area.
drawing, painter
Canadian, (1923–2001)
Aba Bayefsky was born in Toronto. As a teenager, he studied at Toronto’s Central Technical School and at the Art Centre in Grange Park where Arthur Lismer was one of his instructors. Later, he studied at the Académie Julien in Paris, France. At the age of 20, he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and was appointed an Official War Artist a year later. The somber experiences of warfare and its aftermath, of the Belsen Concentration Camp and a Displaced Persons Camp he visited in 1947, outside of Milan, Italy, profoundly affected the artist thereafter. Over the course of his career, he was president of the Canadian Group of Painters and the Canadian Society of Graphic Art. He was an associate member of the Royal Canadian Academy. Having begun exhibiting in 1941 he had 42 solo exhibitions. From 1957 to 1988, Aba Bayefsky was an instructor at OCAD U. In 1979 Bayefsky was made a Member of the Order of Canada. Works by Aba Bayefsky are collected by The National Gallery and the Canadian War Museum, Ottawa, Canada; the École des beaux arts, Montréal, Canada; the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Hebrew Union College, Library Collection, New York, USA; The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; and Yad Vashem Museum, Jerusalem, Israel to name a few. His work has been exhibited throughout Canada, the USA, England, India, Nepal and Japan. In Toronto, his works are found in government buildings, schools and synagogues throughout the area.
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