1910-1987
Born in Poland, Jack Beder immigrated to Montreal in 1926. He was best known for Montreal street scenes and 1930's Montreal cafes, but also painted landscapes, still-lifes, gardens, and portraits/figures. A multi-talented and prolific artist, he worked in oils, acrylics, gouaches, watercolours, pastels, drawings and prints (serigraphs, linoprints, monotypes). Beder also produced sculpture in wood, limestone, marble, serpentine, plaster and liquitex/cardboard.
He painted in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia. His work has been exhibited all over Canada, including Montreal, Halifax, Fredericton, Charlottetown, Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton, St. Catharines, London, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Jasper, Vancouver and Victoria, as well as the United States (1939 New York World’s Fair and other cities). Prompted by the glowing descriptions from his daughter Karen, Beder spent two seasons in the Banff and Jasper areas (1969-70).
Many of his works are in private collections in Canada, the United States and England. He is also represented in the permanent collections of Museum London (Ontario), Concordia University (Montreal) and Quebec Museum (Quebec City); and corporate collections such as IBM, Shell Canada (Calgary), Royal Bank of Canada and Power Corporation of Canada.
He was included in Esther Trepanier's 1987 exhibition "Jewish Painters and Modernity 1930-1945" at the Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal.
Our gallery represents the Beder estate. |
