1. Eugenia Berlin was a Russian-born Canadian sculptor, painter, designer and director.
10 Facts About Eugenia Berlin
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Eugenia Berlin studied sculpture, drawing, and design at the L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Geneva, Switzerland under James Vibert and Valentine Metein-Gilliard and privately under William Metein.
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Eugenia Berlin attended Central Technical School in Toronto, studying under Elizabeth Wyn Wood and Bobs Coghill Haworth.
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At the Chouinard School of Art, Eugenia Berlin studied under Alexander Archipenko and attended the Alexander Archipenko School in New York City.
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Eugenia Berlin practised, and was friends, with some of the pre-eminent artists in Canadian history: Emanuel Hahn, Elizabeth Wyn Wood, Jacobine Jones, Frances Loring and Florence Wyle, as well as artists that included Albert Jacques Franck, EB Cox, AJ Casson, Paraskeva Clark, Harold Town, AY Jackson, JWG Macdonald and Doris McCarthy.
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Eugenia Berlin was of Jewish descent and classified her occupations as 'teacher' and 'social worker' in a Canadian and US Border Crossing Declaration in 1943.
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Eugenia Berlin remained single her entire life and lived with her brother, the noted Russian-Canadian composer and musician Boris Berlin, at Ferndale Ave, Toronto, then at 341 Bloor Street.
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Towards the end of her life Eugenia Berlin lived at Seven Oaks, a long-term care home located at 9 Neilson Road, Toronto.
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In 2000 Eugenia Berlin was honoured by the Canadian Portrait Academy as honorary academician.
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Eugenia Berlin is represented with sculptures in the National Gallery of Canada with her portrait of Dr Marius Barbeau and in the Corbet Collection of Canadian Women Artists with "Mourning Doves".