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| death_place = Toronto, Ontario | death_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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'''Aba Bayefsky''', {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|CM}} (April 7, 1923 – May 5, 2001) was a ] artist and teacher. '''Aba Bayefsky''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|CM|RCA|size=100%}} (April 7, 1923 – May 5, 2001) was an artist and teacher.


==Career==
He was born in ], ], the second son of a Russian-born father and a Scottish-born mother, he studied at the ]. During his teens, he attended classes at the Children’s Art Centre of the ], where he was encouraged by such artists as ], ], ], and ]. He later studied at the ]. Bayefsky was born to a ]ish family in ], the second son of a Russian-born father and a Scottish-born mother.<ref>{{cite web|title=Holocaust art of Aba Bayefsky|website=Canadian Museum of History|url=https://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/tresors/treasure/291eng.shtml|access-date=27 September 2018}}</ref> He studied at the ]. During his teens, he attended classes at the Children's Art Centre of the ], where he was encouraged by such artists as ], Erma Sutcliffe, Dorothy Medhurst, and ]. He later studied at the ] in Paris.


He enlisted in the ] in October, 1942, and was made a ]. He was appointed an official war artist in December, 1944, assigned to depict airborne operations over north-west ]. He made several paintings of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.<ref>{{cite book|last=Celinscak|first=Mark|title=Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Concentration Camp|year=2015|publisher=University of Toronto Press|location=Toronto|isbn=9781442615700}}</ref> Bayefsky enlisted in the ] in October, 1942, and was made a ]. He was appointed an ] in December, 1944, assigned to depict airborne operations over north-west ]. He entered the ] shortly after its liberation and recorded what he saw in sketchbooks (these were destroyed in a fire later).<ref>{{cite book|last=Celinscak|first=Mark|title=Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Concentration Camp|year=2015|publisher=University of Toronto Press|location=Toronto|isbn=9781442615700}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Murray |first1=Joan |title=Canadian Artists of the Second World War |date=1981 |publisher=Robert McLaughlin Gallery |location=Oshawa |page=30|url=http://library.gallery.ca/search~S1?/amurray%2C+joan/amurray+joan/1%2C1%2C152%2CB/frameset&FF=amurray+joan+1943&32%2C%2C152 |access-date=23 July 2022}}</ref> But Bergen-Belsen became a part of his creative imagination. The Canadian War Museum has 9 works by Bayefsky of scenes in Bergen-Belsen.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Brandon |first1=Laura |title=Reflections on the Holocaust: The Holocaust Art of Aba Bayefsky |journal=Canadian Military History |date=2012 |url=https://carleton-ca.academia.edu/LauraBrandon |access-date=20 October 2024}}</ref>


After the war, he was an instructor at the ]. In 1958, he was made a member of the ] and in 1979, he was made a member of the ]. Throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s, Bayefsky maintained an interest in tattooing and produced a series of portraits of tattooed people from Toronto and Japan.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jelinski |first=Jamie |title=Needle Work: A History of Commercial Tattooing in Canada |publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press |year=2024 |location=Montreal and Kingston}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Jelinski|first=Jamie|date=Spring 2018|title="An Artist's View of Tattooing": Aba Bayefsky and the Tattoo Scenes of Toronto and Yokohama, 1978–86|url=https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/jcs.2017-0062.r2|journal=Journal of Canadian Studies|volume=52| issue=2 |pages=451–480| doi=10.3138/jcs.2017-0062.r2 | s2cid=150354531 |via=Project MUSE}}</ref>
After the war, he was an instructor at the ]. In 1958, he joined the ].

In 1979, he was made a Member of the ].


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Canadian artist
Aba BayefskyCM
Born(1923-04-07)April 7, 1923
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
DiedMay 5, 2001(2001-05-05) (aged 78)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Aba Bayefsky CM RCA (April 7, 1923 – May 5, 2001) was an artist and teacher.

Career

Bayefsky was born to a Jewish family 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 in Paris.

Bayefsky enlisted in the RCAF in October, 1942, and was made a Flight Lieutenant. He was appointed an Official Second World War artist in December, 1944, assigned to depict airborne operations over north-west Europe. He entered the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp shortly after its liberation and recorded what he saw in sketchbooks (these were destroyed in a fire later). But Bergen-Belsen became a part of his creative imagination. The Canadian War Museum has 9 works by Bayefsky of scenes in Bergen-Belsen.

After the war, he was an instructor at the Ontario College of Art. In 1958, he was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and in 1979, he was made a member of the Order of Canada. Throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s, Bayefsky maintained an interest in tattooing and produced a series of portraits of tattooed people from Toronto and Japan.

References

  1. "Holocaust art of Aba Bayefsky". Canadian Museum of History. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  2. Celinscak, Mark (2015). Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Concentration Camp. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9781442615700.
  3. Murray, Joan (1981). Canadian Artists of the Second World War. Oshawa: Robert McLaughlin Gallery. p. 30. Retrieved 23 July 2022.
  4. Brandon, Laura (2012). "Reflections on the Holocaust: The Holocaust Art of Aba Bayefsky". Canadian Military History. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
  5. Jelinski, Jamie (2024). Needle Work: A History of Commercial Tattooing in Canada. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press.
  6. Jelinski, Jamie (Spring 2018). ""An Artist's View of Tattooing": Aba Bayefsky and the Tattoo Scenes of Toronto and Yokohama, 1978–86". Journal of Canadian Studies. 52 (2): 451–480. doi:10.3138/jcs.2017-0062.r2. S2CID 150354531 – via Project MUSE.

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