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Name
  
Aba Bayefsky


Role
  
Artist

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Born
  
April 7, 1923 (
1923-04-07
)
Toronto, Ontario

Died
  
May 5, 2001, Toronto, Canada

Education
  
Academie Julian, Central Technical School

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Aba Bayefsky, (April 7, 1923 – May 5, 2001) was a Canadian artist and teacher.

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He was born in Toronto, Ontario, the second son of a Russian-born father and a Scottish-born mother, he studied at the Central Technical School. During his teens, he attended classes at the Children’s Art Centre of the Art Gallery of Ontario, where he was encouraged by such artists as Arthur Lismer, Erma Sutcliffe, Dorothy Medhurst, and A. Y. Jackson. He later studied at the Académie Julian.

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He enlisted in the RCAF in October, 1942, and was made a Flight Lieutenant. He was appointed an official war artist in December, 1944, assigned to depict airborne operations over north-west Europe. He made several paintings of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

After the war, he was an instructor at the Ontario College of Art. In 1958, he joined the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

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In 1979, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.

References

Aba Bayefsky Wikipedia