Roslyn Swartzman ( Sheinfeld; August 18, 1931 – February 5, 2023) was a Canadian

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, painter, and sculptor.A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1–8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 (online only), by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada

Career

Swartzman studied at the Montreal Artists School with

Ghitta Caiserman-Roth Ghitta Caiserman-Roth (March 2, 1923 – November 25, 2005) was a Canadian painter and printmaker. She was a founder of the Montreal Artist School and her work is in the National Gallery of Canada. Caiserman-Roth was also an associate member of th ...

and

Alfred Pinsky Alfred Pinsky (March 31, 1921 - November 21, 1999)P054 – Alf ...

(1947–1948); at the

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with

Arthur Lismer Arthur Lismer, LL.D. (27 June 1885 – 23 March 1969) was an English-Canadian painter, member of the Group of Seven and educator. He is known primarily as a landscape painter and for his paintings of ships in dazzle camouflage. Early life ...

and

Jacques de Tonnancour Jacques Godefroy de Tonnancour, LL. D. (3 January 1917 – 13 January 2005) was a Canadian artist and art educator from Montreal, Quebec. Life and work Jacques Godefroy de Tonnancour was born on 3 January 1917 in Montreal, Quebec. He studied a ...

(1956–1957); and printmaking at the École des Beaux-Arts, Montreal, with

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(1960–1964). Until 1950, she signed her work with her maiden name of Sheinfeld. Swartzman exhibited her work nationally and internationally, in over 30 group exhibitions, and over 20 solo exhibitions beginning in 1959 and in 2006, the Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal celebrated her career with an exhibition titled ''Roslyn Swartzman: Forty Year Retrospective: Prints, Sculptures and Drawings''. Her public commissions in Montreal include ''Oiseau de feu'' (1991), a 22 metre long abstract sculpture with 81 pieces of brightly coloured painted aluminum that hangs on a wall in Place Bonaventure; others are installed at the Place Alexis Nihon, and at the Spanish and Portuguese and Chevra Kadisha synagogues. She was a member of the

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, the Prints and Drawings Council of Canada, the

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and the

Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers The Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers (CPE) was a non-profit organization of Canadian etchers and engravers. History The Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers (CPE) was founded in 1916 as a successor to the short-lived ...

. She also was a teacher and later director of the Graphics Art Department at the

Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts The Segal Centre for Performing Arts, formerly the Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, is a theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at 5170 chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâ ...

, Montreal, from mid-1960s to its closing in 2006. Swartzman died on February 5, 2023, at the age of 91.

Selected collections

Swartzman's work is included in the permanent collections of the

Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (), abbreviated as MNBAQ, is an art museum in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The museum is located in National Battlefields Park and is a complex of four buildings. Three of them were purpose-built for ...

and the

National Gallery of Canada The National Gallery of Canada (), located in the capital city of Ottawa, Ontario, is Canada's National museums of Canada, national art museum. The museum's building takes up , with of space used for exhibiting art. It is one of the List of large ...

, among others.

References

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