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Mashel Teitelbaum (1921–1985) (variant name Mashel Alexander Teitelbaum) was a Canadian painter, born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1921.[1] He was the father of museum director Matthew Teitelbaum.

Mashel Teitelbaum
Born	Mashel Alexander Teitelbaum 1921 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Died	1985 Toronto, Ontario
Education	self-taught but studied from 1950-1951 at the California School of Fine Arts with Clyfford Still and at Mills College with Max Beckmann (1951)
Known for	Painter, Graphic artist

Career

At first, self-taught but studied from 1950-1951 at the California School of Fine Arts with Clyfford Still and at Mills College with Max Beckmann (1951).[1] He then lived in Montreal, then Toronto, where he worked as a set designer for CBC Television and served as art critic for the Toronto Telegram for over a decade (1954-1959). He then studied art in Europe (1959), and taught at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Manitoba (1960) before returning to Toronto, founding the New School of Art in 1962.[2]

Art Work

At first, Teitelbaum painted his own form of portraits featuring expressionism, then landscapes of various regions in Canada.[2][3] His style became increasingly abstract throughout his years of painting, going through many changes, among them single Zen-like improvised gestures on unprimed canvas. By 1967, he critiqued modern art, then in 1973, he made paint skin constructions, of acrylic paint peeled away when dry from polyethylene sheets to make collages.[3] He then turned to painting exuberant landscapes.[3]

Selected exhibitions

• 2004: MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario: Abstract Innovations: Mashel Teitelbaum
• 1991: Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, From Regionalism to Abstraction: Mashel Teitelbaum and Saskatchewan Art in the 1940s
• 1946: Saskatoon Art Centre, Saskatoon (with William Perehudoff)

Selected collections

• Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto[1]
• Art Gallery of Peterborough[4][5]
• Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal[2]
• National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa[6]
• MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina[2]
• Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon[2]
• Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa[7]
• Vancouver Art Gallery[2]

He taught at the University of Manitoba School of Fine Art (1960), and New School, Toronto (1961).[1] Mashel Teitelbaum died in Toronto, Ontario in 1985.

Personal life

Mashel Teitelbaum was described as a "brilliant but mercurial" artist, afflicted by bipolar disorder by the Toronto Star in 2009.[8]

References

Additional sources

• Fulford, Robert. Revolutions of the Soul: Mashel Teitelbaum in Canadian Painting
• Fulford, Robert & Donald Kuspit. Mashel Teitelbaum: A Retrospective. Hamilton: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 1992.
• Teitelbaum, Matthew et al. From Regionalism to Abstraction: Mashel Teitelbaum & Saskatchewan Art in the 1940s. 1991.

External links

• National Gallery of Canada (Mashel Teitelbaum)

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