藝術家Wilfred Roloff BENY (1924-1984) 生平簡歷

出生地： Medicine Hat, Alta

地址： Lethbridge, Alta

职业： Photographer, writer

教育： Banff Sch. Fine Arts, scholar,1939; Trinity Col., Univ. Toronto, BA & BFA, 1945; State Univ. Iowa fel., 1946-1947, with Mauricio Lasaksny, MA & MFA, 1947; Columbia Univ.; Inst Fine Art, New York Univ., scholar 1947-1948; study & travel in Europe, 1948-1949 & 1951-1952; Guggenheim fel for printmaking & painting, 1953; Univ. Lethbridge, LLD, 1972.

展出： Ont. Soc. Artists Show, Art Gallery Toronto, 1945; 32nd Nat. Exhib., Soc. Am. Etchers, Gravers, Lithographers, New York, 1947; Second Nat. Print Ann. Exhib., BM, 1948; Exhib. Current Am. Prints, Dept. Fine Arts, CI, 1948; Nat. Gallery Can., Ottawa. Awards: Int. Prize for Design for The thrones of Earth and Heaven," Leipzig Book Fair, 1958; award for "Comite des Arts Graphiques Français," 1965; gold medal for World's Finest Book for Japan in Colour, Int. Bk. Fair, 1968, Can. Gold Medal, 1967 & Can. Coun. Award, 1968."

工作： Nat. Gallery Can., Ottawa, Ont.; Art Gallery Toronto, Ont.; MoMA; Milione Gallery, Milan, Italy, Redfern Gallery, London, Eng. Commissions: photographic murals, Nesbitt-Thomson, Toronto-Dominion Bank Ctr., 1967; Image Canada (38 photo-murals), comn. for Fed. Pavilion of Expo., Montreal, 1967; The Renaissance (photo-exhib.), Ontario Music Educ. Assn. & Govt. Ont. Coun. Arts, 1968; India (book with Aubrey Menen), Govt. of India, 1969; Island-Ceylon (book with John Lindsay), Govt. of Ceylon, 1971.

评论： Publications: co-auth., The Thrones of Earth and Heavens," 1958, "A Time of Gods," 1962, "Pleasure of ruins," 1964, "To Everything There is a Season," 1967 & "Japan in Colour," 1967.

来源： WW73; Merle Shain, "Roloff Beny in Rome," Chatelaine (May 7, 1970); Kay Kritzwiser, "Roloff Beny: breathtaking odyssey," Toronto Globe & mail, May 1, 1971; Arnold Edinborough, "Superb camera art of Roloff Beny," Financial Post, May 22, 1971."