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Eugenia Berlin (1905 – 2003) was a Russian-born Canadian sculptor, painter, designer and director.
Education and training Berlin was born in Kharkov, Russia, and immigrated to Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1925. She studied sculpture, drawing and design at the L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Geneva, Switzerland under James Vibert and Valentine Métein-Gilliard and privately under William Métein; Central Technical School, Toronto under Elizabeth Wyn Wood and Bobs Coghill Haworth; the Chouinard School of Art under Alexander Archipenko; and the Alexander Archipenko School in New York. In Canada she studied sculpting and painting under Elizabeth Wyn Wood and Bobs Coghill Haworth respectively. Berlin's primary discipline was sculpture. She practised and was friends with some of the most pre-eminent artists in Canadian history namely: Emanuel Hahn, Elizabeth Wyn Wood, Jacobine Jones, Frances Loring and Florence Wyle. As well as artists that included Albert Jacques Franck, EB Cox, AJ Casson, Paraskeva Clark, Harold Town, AY Jackson, JWG Macdonald and Doris McCarthy. Exhibitons Berlin exhibited at the National Art Gallery of Canada, Royal Canadian Academy, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, London Regional Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Art Gallery of Toronto, Hart House at the University of Toronto, UNESCO Exhibition of Canadian Art in Paris 1946, Toronto Winter Fair, King City Public Library (solo exhibition); Eaton’s Art Gallery, Roberts Gallery (1959), J.M. Dent and Sons and the Canadian Portrait Academy. Private Life Berlin was of Jewish descent and classified her occupations as 'teacher' and 'social worker' in a Canadian and U.S. Border Crossing Declaration in 1943. She remained single her entire life and lived with her brother the noted Russian-Canadian composer the musician Boris Berlin at Ferndale Ave, Toronto. Whilst in her 90's Berlin lived alone at 341 Bloor Street, Toronto. Towards the end of her life Berlin lived at Seven Oaks, a long-term care home located at 9 Neilson Road, Toronto, Ontario. Career and Honours Berlin won a prize at the Toronto Winter Fair for her outdoor garden sculpture and two animal figures which were reproduced in “Canadian Art.” During Berlin's forty year plus career she was appointed Director of the Saturday Morning Club at the Royal Ontario Museum a position she held until her retirement. In 2000 Berlin was honoured by the Canadian Portrait Academy as honourary Academician. Collections Berlin is represented with sculptures in the National Gallery of Canada with her portrait of Dr. Marius Barbeau and in the Corbet Collection of Canadian Women Artists with "Mourning Doves". Portraits by other Artists Berlin was the subject of a portrait sculpture by Canadian artist Christian Cardell Corbet in 2000. Notes References * Baker, Victoria. Emmanuel Hahn and Elizabeth Wyn Wood: Tradition and Innovation in Canadian Sculpture. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1997. ISBN 0-88884-670-3 Hill, C.C. and P.B. Landry, eds. National Gallery Catalogue, Canadian Art. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1988. * McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing. Royal Canadian Academy of Arts/Académie royale des arts du Canada: Exhibitions and Members 1880-1979. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981. National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada Benoît Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/ ", Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License ==--==--==
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