Joe Rosenthal (1921 – July 1, 2018) was a Canadian artist. He travelled and sketched in the

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, Mexico,

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, England, the

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, France, Italy, Spain,

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, Israel, and

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. He was a member of the

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and the Ontario Society of Artists.

Early years

Rosenthal was born in 1921 in

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(now

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). He emigrated to Canada in 1927. From 1942 to 1945, he served in the

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. He studied at the Ontario College of Art.

Legacy

He was awarded recognition by the

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, the Canada Council, and the Toronto Outdoor Exhibition. He won first prize in the National Open Sculpture Competition for the Dr. Sun Yat Sen Monument. He was awarded The Rabin International Presentation Sculpture, Los Angeles, 1996. He latterly lived in

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, Ontario, Canada and died in July 2018 at the age of 97.

Family

Rosenthal was the brother-in-law of Ross Dowson and was a member of the Revolutionary Workers' Party until the early 1950s when he was part of a split concerning the group's orientation towards the

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. His wife, Joyce Rosenthal, Ross Dowson's sister, was a long-time socialist and an activist in the women's movement, particularly around abortion rights. She co-founded the Ontario chapter of the Canadian Hemophilia Society after discovering that their son was a hemophiliac.

Works

File:Odette Sculpture Park Consolation 02.jpg, ''Consolation'' (detail) in Odette Sculpture Park - Windsor, Ontario/Canada File:Odette Sculpture Park Consolation 01.jpg, ''Consolation'' in Odette Sculpture Park - Windsor, Ontario/Canada File:Odette Sculpture Park Consolation 03.jpg, ''Consolation'' in Odette Sculpture Park - Windsor, Ontario/Canada File:Neighbours by joe rosenthal.jpg, ''

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'' at St. Michael's College, University of Toronto File:Joe Rosenthal Sun Yat-sen Toronto.jpg, ''Sun Yat-sen'' at Riverdale Park East, Toronto

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Works on public display
in Toronto on Dittwald Art Photo Collection 1921 births 2018 deaths Artists from Chișinău Moldovan Jews Romanian emigrants to Canada Artists from Toronto Canadian sculptors Canadian male sculptors Canadian Trotskyists OCAD University alumni Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts {{Canada-sculptor-stub