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Ghitta Caiserman-Roth fonds [multiple media]
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Finding aid (Paper) The finding aid provides a file list of vols. 1-16. MSS1931 (95: Open, no copying)Textual records: (Electronic) Finding aid. MSS1931 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000491.pdf(Electronic) Partial item-level description in Icon. R2509 (95: Open, no copying)(Electronic) ICON database 1992-694 (90: Open)(Electronic) ICON database 1993-233 (90: Open)(Electronic) ICON database 1993-232 (90: Open)(Electronic) ICON database 1993-241 (90: Open)(Electronic) ICON database 1994-364 (90: Open)Moving images (Electronic) Refer to MISACS database for item-level descriptions. (90: Open) -
Record information Ghitta Caiserman-Roth fonds [multiple media]
Date:[ca. 1920]-2006.Reference:R2509-0-1-E, MG31-D232Type of material:Art, Textual material, Photographs, Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:106680Date(s):[ca. 1920]-2006.Place of creation:CanadaExtent:3.06 m of textual records.
43 sketchbooks : mixed media
ca. 2,035 photographs : ca. 965 b&w and ca. 1, 070 col.
ca. 690 photographs : ca. 440 b&w and ca. 250 col. negatives
ca. 130 photographs : colour zerox
2 videocassettes (55 min., 29 s.)
172 prints : etching and silkscreen
201 drawings : mixed media
15 watercolours
139 reproductions
ca. 70 etching plates.
2 publications : limited edition portfolios
3 paintings : oilLanguage of material:EnglishAdded language of material:English, FrenchScope and content:Fonds consists of personal records and professional of Ghitta Caiserman-Roth including the following series: Personal Correspondence; Business Correspondence; Writings; Lectures and Teaching; Publicity Material; Clippings; Biographical Material and Memorabilia; Financial Records; Published Material; Art Material; and Photographic Material.
Fonds also includes audio visual material comprising two video recordings as follows: one episode from ART MEDIA (1988), a half-hour French-language talk show on the arts produced by Vidéotron (Montréal) and featuring an interview with Ghitta Caiserman-Roth discussing her work as an artist; and one episode from SEEING IT OUR WAY (1984), CBC's English-language documentary series, featuring Ghitta Caiserman-Roth as she speaks of her work and the processes involved in painting, sketching and lithographyProvenance:Additional name(s):Biography/Administrative history:Caiserman-Roth, Ghitta, 1923-2005 : Ghitta Caiserman-Roth, draughtsperson, engraver, painter, was born in Montreal in 1923, the daughter of H.M. Caiserman, a founder and first General Secretary of the Canadian Jewish Congress. She began her art studies with Alexandre Bercovitch in Montreal and, in New York, at the Parsons School of Design and Art Students' League. She later studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art, and with the Quebec artist and printmaker Albert Dumouchel at l'École des Beaux-Arts 1961-1962.
She was awarded the O'Keefe Art Award to travel in Italy and France in 1950 and won a scholarship to the Allende Institute of Mexico in 1951. She also received the Centennial Medal, Canada Council awards, Hadassah Art Auction awards, and the Ninth Annual Award for the Arts from the I.J. Segal Funds. A painter and printmaker, Caiserman-Roth was a member of the Canadian Society of Graphic Art (1950), Canadian Group of Painters (1954), Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (1956), and the Canadian Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers (1968). She was also a member of le Conseil des artistes peintres du Québec and le Conseil québécois de l'estampe and was a founding member of the printmaking studio Atelier Graphia in Montreal.
Caiserman-Roth taught art in Canadian institutions commencing in the 1940s. She founded the Montreal Artists School (1948-1950) with her first husband, the artist Alfred Pinsky. She taught for many years at Sir George Williams College, Concordia University, and at the Saidye Bronfman Centre. She also taught at Queen's University, Mount Allison University, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Mount Saint Vincent University, the Ontario College of Art, l'Université du Québec à Montréal, and the University of British Columbia.
Her first major sale was a painting to the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1949. Caiserman-Roth exhibited her work in most major cities in Canada and is represented in the Vancouver Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon, Art Gallery of Hamilton, National Gallery of Canada, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Musée des Beaux-Arts in Montreal, and some fifty other public collections in Canada. Concordia University organized a retrospective of her work in 1980: "Ghitta Caiserman-Roth: a retrospective view, 1947-1980". In March 2000, she was awarded the first Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts for Painting.
In 1988, she published "Ghitta Caiserman-Roth: drawings and paintings". In 1993, McGill-Queen's University Press published "Insights, Discoveries, Surprises; Drawing From The Model", co-written by Caiserman-Roth and Rhoda Cohen. Her work has been used to illustrate a number of books.
Her husband Max Roth pre-deceased her in 2001. The artist died in 2005, having suffered for several years from the debilitating effects of Alzheimer's Disease. She is survived by her daughter Käthe.Additional information:General note:There are hundreds of individual works contained in the 34 sketchbooks. Only a selected few have been item-level catalogued with an e-copy number.Custodial history:Acquired directly from the artist, or from the estate of the artist.Citation/reference note:Credit: Library and Archives Canada.Subject heading:- Ontario College of Art
- Artists - Correspondence, [1944-1992] Louis Muhlstock, [1988-1991]
- Art - Exhibitions, [197-]-[199-] Vancouver Art Gallery, [1950]-2000
- Society of Canadian Artists, [1950-1992]
- Quebec Art Therapy Association, [1950-1992]
- Ottawa School of Art, [1950-1992]
- National Gallery of Canada, [1950]-2000
- Mount Allison University (Sackville, N.B.), [1950-1998]
- Galerie Dresdnere, [1950-1992]
- Conseil des artistes peintres du Québec, [1950-1992]
- Cornwall Regional Art Gallery, [1950-1992]
- Confederation Centre, [1950-1992]
- Atelia Graphia (Montreal, Quebec), [1950]-2000
- Art Gallery of Algoma, [1950]-1998
- Max Roth, [1952-1992]
- Nella Laks, [1952]-2005
- David Shapiro, [1952-1992]
- Dick Romaine, [1952-1992]
- Edith Tolkin, [1952]-2003
- Jan Winton, 1991
- Fred Taylor, 1976-1981
- David Silverberg, 1992
- Leah Sherman, n.d., 1981-1994
- Hororé Sharrer, n.d., 1987-1991
- Marion Scott, n.d., 1985-1991
- Dorothy Ruddick, n.d., 1990-1999
- Goodridge Roberts, n.d
- Roland Pichet, 1962
- Patricia Kathleen Page, n.d., 1980-1981
- Wynona Mulcaster, n.d., 1953-2000
- Cleveland Morgan, n.d., 1952
- Ann McCall, n.d., 1991-1994
- Naoko Matsubara, n.d
- Jo Manning, 1990
- Nancy Durrell Mckenna, 1981-2000
- John Little, n.d., 1981-1991
- Robert Langstadt, 1986-1987
- Friedhelm Lach, n.d., 1980-1985, [1988-1991]
- Basya Hunter, n.d., 1980-1988
- Noreen Mallory Hood, 1984-2001
- Betty Goodwin, 1986
- A. Christo Giannini, 1984
- Louise Gareau-DesBois, n.d., 1981
- Beryl Fox, 1978
- O.J. Firestone, 1975-1986
- Barker Fairley, n.d., 1978
- Barbara Echardt Goodwin, n.d., 1983-1992
- Robert Dietz, 1982-1986
- Dickson, Jennifer, 1967-1999
- Madeleine Boyer, n.d., 1977
- Caroline Boileau, 1992
- André Biéler, n.d
- Bonnie Baxter, n.d., 1990
- Pat Martin Bates, 1980
- Catherine Bates, 1983-1988
- Nina Caiserman, 1953
- Alfred Pinsky, [1944-1991]
- Anne Savage, 1944
Source:PrivateFormer archival reference no.:MG31-D232Other accession no.:2007-0067 VSA -
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