Home > Artist Database > Bio-bibliographic Database > BERLIN, Eugenia
Artist Database
BERLIN, Eugenia
- Born
- Kharkov, Russia, 1905
- Died
- Toronto, Ontario, 2001
- Biography synopsis
- Eugenia Berlin studied at the Ecole de Beaux-Arts, Geneva, Switzerland, under James Vibert and Valentine Métein-Gilliard (1924-1925). During this time she also attended private classes with Valentine Métein-Gilliard and William Métein. She moved to Toronto in 1925 and continued her studies at the Central Technical School, under Elizabeth Wyn Wood and B. Cogill Haworth, intermittently from 1926 to 1944. In 1933 she moved to Los Angeles and studied at the Chouinard School of Art under Alexander Archipenko. She later studied at Archipenko’s Summer Art School at Woodstock, New York in 1946; Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario in 1957; and Victoria College in 1958. Berlin worked in different media, such as sculpture, watercolour, batik, mixed media paintings, and she also produced ceramics and pottery. She won a prize at the Toronto Winter Fair for her garden sculpture. In 1977 she held a solo exhibition of her mixed media paintings and watercolours at the King City Public Library. She also exhibited at Eaton’s Art Gallery, J.M. Dent and Sons, and the Royal Canadian Academy. Her work is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada.
- Media used
- Mixed media
- Painting
- Pottery
- Sculpture
- Watercolour
- Education
- Central Technical School, Toronto, 1925 - ? (under Elizabeth Wyn Wood; Bobs Haworth)
- Alfred University (New York), 1946 - ?
- Chouinard Art Institute (Los Angeles), 1934 - ? (under Alexander Archipenko)
- File & Archive locations
- National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
- Toronto Reference Library, ON
- Art Gallery of Ontario - Edward P. Taylor Research Library and Archives
- London Public Library, ON
- University of British Columbia - Fine Arts Library
- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, QC
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- "Leading Sculptors in Exhibition at Gallery." Ottawa Citizen 11 Jan 1950: 18
- "Pictures and Ceramic Sculpture arrive from Artists for Show and Sale." Windsor Daily Star 18 Nov 1950: 11
- Hill, C.C. and P.B. Landry, eds. National Gallery Catalogue, Canadian Art. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1988
- MacDonald, Colin S. The Dictionary of Canadian Artists. (Volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker) Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009.
- McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999
- McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing. Royal Canadian Academy of Arts/Académie royale des arts du Canada: Exhibitions and Members 1880-1979 Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981
- Ross, Malcom ed. “Sculpture.” The Arts in Canada. Toronto: Macmillan, 1958
- Tivy, Patrick. "An Overview of Canadian Ceramics." The Calgary Herald 31 Jan 1980: A17
