Joe Rosenthal (1921 – July 1, 2018) was a Canadian sculptor. He travelled and sketched in the
Northwest Territories, Mexico,
Cuba
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, England, the
Netherlands
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, France, Italy, Spain,
Greece
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,
Jordan
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, Israel, and
Egypt
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. He was a member of the
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
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History 1880 to 1890
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and the
Ontario Society of Artists
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.
Early years
Rosenthal was born in 1921 in
Romania
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(now
Moldova
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). He emigrated to Canada in 1927. From 1942 to 1945, he served in the
Canadian Army
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. He studied at the
Ontario College of Art
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.
Legacy
He was awarded recognition by the
Art Gallery of Ontario
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, the Canada Council, and the Toronto Outdoor Exhibition. He won first prize in the National Open Sculpture Competition for the Dr. Sun Yat Sen Monument. He was awarded The Rabin International Presentation Sculpture, Los Angeles, 1996. He latterly lived in
Toronto
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, Ontario, Canada and died in July 2018 at the age of 97.
Family
Rosenthal was the brother-in-law of
Ross Dowson
Ross Jewitt Dowson (September 4, 1917 – February 17, 2002) was a Canadian Trotskyist political figure.
Early life
Dowson was born on September 4, 1917, the third of what was eventually a family of seven children in a working-class family in ...
and was a member of the
Revolutionary Workers' Party until the early 1950s when he was part of a split concerning the group's orientation towards the
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. His wife, Joyce Rosenthal, Ross Dowson's sister, was a long-time socialist and an activist in the women's movement, particularly around abortion rights. She co-founded the Ontario chapter of the
Canadian Hemophilia Society
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after discovering that their son, Ron, was a hemophiliac.
Works
File:Odette Sculpture Park Consolation 02.jpg, Joe Rosenthal (sculptor)'s ''Consolation'' (detail) in Odette Sculpture Park
The Windsor Sculpture Park, formerly known as the Odette Sculpture Park, is an open space in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, that shows 35 large-scale contemporary sculptures by world-renowned artists including Elisabeth Frink, Gerald Gladstone, and Sore ...
- Windsor, Ontario/Canada
File:Odette Sculpture Park Consolation 01.jpg, Joe Rosenthal (sculptor)'s ''Consolation'' in Odette Sculpture Park
The Windsor Sculpture Park, formerly known as the Odette Sculpture Park, is an open space in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, that shows 35 large-scale contemporary sculptures by world-renowned artists including Elisabeth Frink, Gerald Gladstone, and Sore ...
- Windsor, Ontario/Canada
File:Odette Sculpture Park Consolation 03.jpg, Joe Rosenthal (sculptor)'s ''Consolation'' in Odette Sculpture Park
The Windsor Sculpture Park, formerly known as the Odette Sculpture Park, is an open space in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, that shows 35 large-scale contemporary sculptures by world-renowned artists including Elisabeth Frink, Gerald Gladstone, and Sore ...
- Windsor, Ontario/Canada
File:Neighbours by joe rosenthal.jpg, Joe Rosenthal (sculptor)'s ''Neighbours'' at St. Michael's College, University of Toronto
References
External links
Works on public displayin Toronto on Dittwald Art Photo Collection
1921 births
2018 deaths
Artists from Chișinău
Moldovan Jews
Romanian emigrants to Canada
Artists from Toronto
Canadian sculptors
Canadian male sculptors
Canadian Trotskyists
OCAD University alumni
Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
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