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Eli Ilan ( he, אלי אילן; 1928 – 1982) was an 
Ilan was born in
Israel
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i sculptor.
Ilan was born in Winnipeg
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, Manitoba
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. He enrolled in a premedical curriculum at the University of British Columbia
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in Vancouver
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and emigrated to Israel in 1948. He then studied pre-historic archaeology and physical anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1956, he returned to Canada to study sculpture at the Ontario College of Art & Design
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. He lived in Kibbutz Sasa from 1959 to 1963. He died in 1982 in Caesarea, Israel
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References
Sources
* Dagon, Yoav, ''Eli Ilan 1928-1982, Retrospective'', Herzliya, Israel, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, 1992. * Kohansky, Mendel, ''Sculptures of Eli Ilan'', London, Jacques O'Hana Gallery, 1974. * Renee Darom Galerie D'art, ''Eli Ilan Sculpture'', Tel Aviv, Renee Darom Galerie D'art, 1974External links
1928 births 1982 deaths 20th-century Israeli sculptors Artists from Winnipeg Canadian emigrants to Israel Israeli Jews Jewish sculptors Modern sculptors {{Israel-artist-stub