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Playgrounds #2 graphite & wash on paper, 11" × 12¼" |
Masks, 2000 graphite & wash, 11" × 12¼" |
Inside / Outside - 1, 2002 oil on canvas, 40½" × 40" |
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Inside / Outside - 2, 2002 oil on canvas, 48" × 35" |
Masques, fragments et mains, 2001 oil on canvas, 47" × 35" |
Playground 2 oil on canvas, 24" × 18" |
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Playgrounds graphite & wash on paper, 11" × 12¼" |
Cityscape, 2002 oil on canvas, 36" × 48" |
Puppeteers oil on canvas, 36" × 42" |
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Who Am I oil on canvas, 30" × 60" |
La cité #2, 2001 oil on canvas, 18" × 24" |
Unmasking, 1999 graphite & wash on paper, 8" × 13" |
Ghitta Caiserman-Roth (1923-2005) Artist Biography
Born in Montreal, Ghitta Caiserman-Roth's family had lived for many years on Esplanade Avenue in the heart of downtown Montreal, the artistic centre where the multicultural currents of art happily intermingle.
She graduated from the Parsons School of Design in New York with a post graduate scholarship, having also studied at the American Artists School and the Art Students League of New York with the artist Moses Soyer.
Ghitta taught for many years at George Williams College and Concordia University, the Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal, Queen's University Summer School, Kingston, Mount Allison University, Sackville, N.B., Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Art Sutton, and Vermont Studio.
Awards
- Canadian Centennial Medal 1967
- Canada Council Senior Fellowship, Purchase Prize and Best Graphic Image Award of the Ontario Society of Artists 1975
- The Monsanto Certificate of Merit 1987
- Explorations Grant (Canada Council)
- 2000 Governor General's Award in Visual Arts
Selected Exhibitions
- 2001 Retrospective Carelton University Art Gallery
- 2000 Galerie Jean-Claude Bergeron, Montreal
- 2000 Linda Landos Gallery, Vancouver
- 2000 Maison des Arts de Laval
- 2001 Maison Louis H. Lafontaine, Montreal
- 2001 Galerie Linda Verge, Quebec City












