11 Facts About Moe Reinblatt

Moses Reinblatt was a Canadian painter, printmaker, sculptor, and art teacher.

Moe Reinblatt was associated with the Jewish Painters of Montreal.

Moe Reinblatt was born in Montreal to Jewish parents Manya and Joseph Reinblatt.

Moe Reinblatt's grandfather, Baruch, was an immigrant from Russian Bessarabia.

Moe Reinblatt studied art with Anne Savage at Baron Byng High School from 1932 to 1935, and under painter Alexander Bercovitch at the Montreal YM-YWHA from 1935 to 1942, working meanwhile at his father's embroidery business.

Moe Reinblatt enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force in April 1942.

Moe Reinblatt was posted to RCAF Station Mont-Joli as an airframe mechanic, eventually rising to the rank of leading aircraftman.

Moe Reinblatt organized art classes at the YM-YWHA between 1946 and 1957, and taught at the Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts from 1967.

Moe Reinblatt died of cancer in Montreal on August 24,1979.

Moe Reinblatt's paintings are represented in numerous museums across Canada, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Canadian War Museum, the Musee national des beaux-arts du Quebec, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the McCord Museum, and the New Brunswick Museum, as well as the Bezalel Museum in Israel.

Moe Reinblatt won the Rolph-Clarke-Stone Award for the most distinguished print in the 1947 Canadian Society of Graphic Art Annual Exhibition, for his drypoint The Drinker.