AGO: Highlights from the Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario
2013Editor, Art Gallery of Ontario
357 pages (color)
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1921 Kielce, Poland - 1988 Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Known for: Expressionist landscape and non objective painting, graphics.
Gershon Iskowitz was a painter and graphic artist. He was born in Kielce, Poland. During the Nazi occupation he was interned in the Kielce ghetto, and the concentration camps Auschwitz and... Read full biography
Gershon Iskowitz was a painter and graphic artist. He was born in Kielce, Poland. During the Nazi occupation he was interned in the Kielce ghetto, and the concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald. After the war he was hospitalized in Munich, Germany, where he resided for the next four years... Read full biography
Gershon Iskowitz was a painter and graphic artist. He was born in Kielce, Poland. During the Nazi occupation he was interned in the Kielce ghetto, and the concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald. After the war he was hospitalized in Munich, Germany, where he resided for the next four years (1945 -1949). He emigrated to Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1949 where he lived for the rest of his life and died. His mediums were oil, acrylic, watercolour, gouache, ink, colour serigraph and mixed... Read full biography
Gershon Iskowitz was a painter and graphic artist. He was born in Kielce, Poland. During the Nazi occupation he was interned in the Kielce ghetto, and the concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald. After the war he was hospitalized in Munich, Germany, where he resided for the next four years (1945 -1949). He emigrated to Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1949 where he lived for the rest of his life and died. His mediums were oil, acrylic, watercolour, gouache, ink, colour serigraph and mixed mediums. His early subjects include war, concentration camp life, figures, social commentary, genre, landscape and portraits. The stated subjects of his mature works are landscapes; though to an uninformed viewer they are so abstract that the subjects... Read full biography
Gershon Iskowitz was a painter and graphic artist. He was born in Kielce, Poland. During the Nazi occupation he was interned in the Kielce ghetto, and the concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald. After the war he was hospitalized in Munich, Germany, where he resided for the next four years (1945 -1949). He emigrated to Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1949 where he lived for the rest of his life and died. His mediums were oil, acrylic, watercolour, gouache, ink, colour serigraph and mixed mediums. His early subjects include war, concentration camp life, figures, social commentary, genre, landscape and portraits. The stated subjects of his mature works are landscapes; though to an uninformed viewer they are so abstract that the subjects appear, at first, to be only colour, shape and texture. According to Iskowitz they depict... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (28)
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A Concise History of Canadian Painting, (Third Edition)
2012Reid, Dennis506 pages (color)The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesDavenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesThe Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction
2001Westbridge, Anthony R. and Diana L. Bodnar622 pagesConcordia Collects: Selected Art Acquisitions, 1974-2000 (Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery
2000Antaki, Karen72 pages (color)Art and Architecture in Canada: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature to 1981
1991Lerner, Loren R; Mary F. Williamson1,557 pages (color)Masterpieces of Canadian Art: From the National Gallery of Canada
1990Burnett, David; Dr. Shirley L. Thomson (Foreward)230 pages (color)Cineplex Odeon The First Ten Years: A Celebration of Contemporary Canadian Art
1989Burnett, David97 pages (color)The Art Gallery of Hamilton: Seventy-Five Years (1914-1989) (Art Gallery of Hamilton)
1989Fox, Ross and Grace Inglis122 pages (color)Montreal Museum of Fine Arts-Spring Exhibitions 1880-1970 (Formerly Art Association of Montreal)
1988McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing417 pagesA Concise History of Canadian Painting (Second Edition)
1988Reid, Dennis418 pages (color)Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986Jaques Cattell Press1,292 pagesJewish Experience In the Twentieth Century
1984Kampf, Avram240 pages (color)Iskowitz (Art Gallery of Ontario)
1982
(Exhibition catalog)Burnett, David191 pages (color)Gershon Iskowitz-Painter of Light
1982Freedman, Adele178 pages (color)Art in Architecture: Art for the Built Environment in the Province of Ontario
1982Parkin, Jeanne276 pagesSelections from the Westburne Collection (Edmonton Art Gallery)
1982Wilkin, Karen48 pages (color)Modern Painting in Canada: Major Movements in Twentieth Century Canadian Art
1978Fenton, Terry; Karen Wilken119 pages (color)A Canadian Survey: Selected Works from the Collection of Imperial Oil Limited (Art Gallery of Ontario)
1978Moses, Gerry52 pages (color)Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976Jaques Cattell Press756 pagesForum 76 (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts)
1976
(Exhibition catalog)Rosshandler, Leo and Germain Lefebvre95 pagesJewish Experience in the Art of the Twentieth Century
1976Sparling, Mary and Avram Kampf32 pagesA Dictionary of Canadian Artists (8 Volumes)
1974MacDonald, Colin, S.3,667 pagesCanadian Art Today
1970Townsend, William114 pages (color)The Ontario Centennial Art Exhibition (Ontario Council for the Arts)
1967Robertson, Bryan60 pagesGreat Canadian Painting: A Century of Art
1966Kilbourn, Elizabeth; Frank Newfeld128 pages (color)Sixth Biennial Exhibition of Canadian Painting, 1965 (National Gallery of Canada)
1965
(Exhibition catalog)Townsend, William47 pages (color)