
Roslyn Swartzman
Biography
Roslyn Swartzman (1931-2023)
From the Canadian Jewish News https://thecjn.ca/lives/obituary-roslyn-swartzman-91-was-a-respected-artist-and-inspiring-teacher-in-montreal/:
"Swartzman, who was primarily a printmaker but accomplished in other media, taught generations of budding artists, some of whom went on to successful careers, at the Saidye Bronfman Centre School of Fine Arts (SBC) in Montreal.
She was a member of the prestigious Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
Swartzman is being remembered as an inspiring, but tough, mentor who demanded the best from her students, as she did from herself. She was a teacher and later head of the graphic arts department at the SBC from the mid-1960s until 2006 when its fine arts school closed.
Informally, she and her late husband Monte were known as generous and vivacious hosts, equally to lifelong friends and new people in their circle.
Born in Montreal in 1931, Swartzman née Sheinfeld began her art education in the late 1940s at the Montreal Artists School studying under the renowned Ghitta Caiserman-Roth and Alfred Pinsky, continuing in the 1950s at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts where she came under the influence of such Canadian luminaries as Arthur Lismer and Jacques de Tonnancour. She specialized in printmaking at Montreal’s École des Beaux-Arts with Albert Dumouchel, one of the most influential Quebec printmakers of his time, in the early 1960s.
Swartzman exhibited her work nationally and internationally in more than 30 group and 20 solo shows, beginning in 1959. In 2006, the SBC (now the Segal Centre for Performing Arts) presented a retrospective of her 40-year career in prints, as well as painting, sculpture and drawings.
Her public commissions in Montreal include Oiseau de feu (1991), a 22-metre-long abstract wall sculpture with 81 pieces of brightly painted aluminum that hangs in Place Bonaventure. Others could be found in the Alexis Nihon Plaza, as well as the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue and Congregation Chevra Kadisha-B’nai Jacob."
Swartzman's work is included in the permanent collections of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec[2] and the National Gallery of Canada, among others.
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