GERALD GLADSTONE. [1929-2005]. RCA. OSA.

Gerald Gladstone was born in Toronto. His father was a professional painter, but artistically he was mainly self-taught. He worked in an engraving firm and later for an advertising company. He created his first sculpture after seeing a Gordon Rayner exhibition at Art Gallery of Ontario in 1956. He studied welding, and by 1957 was exhibited work at the AGO. He later exhibited at the Isaacs Gallery, Toronto. He received a Canada Council grant in 1961 to study in London, England and another in 1962 to study in New York. He had many exhibitions in Canada, the USA and England (including the Carnegie International Exhibition, New York [1958], Commonwealth Institute, London [1962], Museum of Modern Art, New York [1963], Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo [1963-64], Hamilton Art Gallery, London, England [1964], and a one-man exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto [2003]. Through the years he received a number of significant public commissions and his work is in numerous public, corporate, and private collections. A sculptor best known for his mixed media works featuring blocks of lucite with suspended metal constructions. In 2005 he died of leukemia at the age of 76.

Bibliography: MacDonald, Dictionary of Canadian Artists [vol. 2, pp.279-281].

Provenance: The Dunkelman Gallery, Toronto; collection Mrs. Yael Dunkelman, Toronto.

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