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Gershon Iskowitz fonds File
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[Commemorative matchbook]

Hand-crafted book of matches, the cover of which is made from two photographs of a group seated at a banquet table (perhaps at the 1972 Venice Biennale?)

[Identity documents]

Displaced Person's pass (1945); Temporary Travel Document, Military Government for Germany (1948); Certificate of Canadian Citizenship (large and wallet-sized formats), 1959; Social Insurance card; Old Age Security card (1986); Ontario Senior Citizen Privilege Card (1986).

[Writings about the artist]

Typescript writings about Iskowitz, one titled "The Iskowitz Phenomenon" and one entitled "Chapter Vii, 1972-1982" (a draft from Gershon Iskowitz: Painter of Light?); and a 2pp bibliography on Iskowitz.

[Images of art works]

4 prints of art works from 1940s (2 concentration camp scenes, 2 portraits); 1 slide from 1961; 8 slides from 1974

[Family photograph]

One framed photograph of Iskowitz's family (parents and siblings). Date is estimated based on children's apparent age

[Openings, etc.]

Primarily images from Canada House and Art Gallery of Ontario exhibition openings. Two images of an unidentified gallery event, probably 1970s.

[Photographs: family, Poland]

Most of the photographs in this file depict Kielce, Poland; date is estimated to be 1960s based on clothing and other image details. Family photographs include apparent vintage print and several copies of family group as above; image of Iskowitz's mother (?) and unidentified woman; unidentified family group apparently from 1910s. One photograph depicts men in concentration camp uniforms, Iskowitz not apparently among them.

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