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Robert Adams Collection
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50190
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 0.37m of multiple media
- Fonds No.
- 1306
- Date
- [between 1900 and 1990] predominently 1987-1988
- Scope and Content
- The Collection contains, correspondence, research notes, photographs, negatives, museum catalogues, magazines, manuscripts and news clippings related to life and work of Alexander Bercovitch as well as the research and publication of "The Life and Work of Alexander Bercovitch - Artist" by Robert Ad…
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 0.37m of multiple media
- Scope and Content
- The Collection contains, correspondence, research notes, photographs, negatives, museum catalogues, magazines, manuscripts and news clippings related to life and work of Alexander Bercovitch as well as the research and publication of "The Life and Work of Alexander Bercovitch - Artist" by Robert Adams. The material predominently focuses on the years 1987-1988, during which Adams was researching, writing and publishing his book.
- Date
- [between 1900 and 1990] predominently 1987-1988
- Fonds No.
- 1306
- Storage Location
- 7-1A
- History / Biographical
- Robert Adams was born in South Wales in 1937. He first studied at the London School of Economics, after which he moved to Montreal to continue his education and teaching career at Concordia University. In 1972 he received a position at College Bois-du-Boulogne where he taught for eight more years. It was during these years he wrote his first book, “The Life and Work of Alexander Bercovitch – Artist.” In the same year of its publication, 1988, the noted biography was short listed for the Quebec Society for the Promotion of English-Language Literature (QSPELL) award in non-fiction. Robert Adams would later go on to be a recognized book reviewer, speaking regularly on CBC Radio’s “Talking Books” and TV Ontario’s “Big Ideas” on Book TV. He was also been a frequent guest-speaker at many literary functions, including those held by the Jewish Public Library in Montreal. Known as the father of modern Jewish painting in Montreal, Alexander Bercovitch was a Russian Jewish painter born in 1891 in the port city of Kherson in the Ukraine. He spent his formative years travelling across Europe honing his artistic skills and establishing himself as a painter. It wasn’t until 1926 that Bercovitch and his family came to Montreal. After a difficult first year in Montreal Bercovitch left his family and would continue to have a turbulent relationship with his wife and children. Throughout the remaining twenty-four years of his life Bercovitch would join the "Eastern Group of Painters,” work with John Lyman to establish the Canadian Arts Society of Jewish Artists and the Eastern Group as well as teach a generation of Jewish artists, including Moe Reinblatt, Ghitta Caiserman-Roth, Rita Briansky and Esther Wertheimer. On January 7, 1951 Alexander Bercovitch died from a massive heart-attack, which struck him only four hours before his retrospective was to open at the YM-YWHA.
- Language
- English
- French
- Yiddish
- Arrangement
- Original order was maintained. Duplicates were removed from both the textual and photographic material.
- Notes
- Includes correspondence to and from Alexander Bercovitch.
- Subjects
- Painters
- Montreal (Quebec)
- Bercovitch, Abram William, 1882-1962.
- Bercovitch, Alexander
- Artists
- Adams, Robert
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Press clippings and essay about Alexander Bercovitch
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50206
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1306; 00016
- Date
- [between 1900 and 1972]
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Date
- [between 1900 and 1972]
- Fonds No.
- 1306
- File No.
- 00016
- Storage Location
- 7-1G
- CTN.002
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Painters
- Montreal (Quebec)
- Bercovitch, Abram William, 1882-1962.
- Bercovitch, Alexander
- Artists
- Adams, Robert
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Photographs of Alexander Bercovitch's artwork
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50217
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 37 photographs : col ; 20 x 25cm
- Fonds No.
- 1306; 00027
- Date
- 1922-1950
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 37 photographs : col ; 20 x 25cm
- Date
- 1922-1950
- Fonds No.
- 1306
- File No.
- 00027
- Storage Location
- 7-1G
- CTN.002
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Painters
- Montreal (Quebec)
- Bercovitch, Abram William, 1882-1962.
- Bercovitch, Alexander
- Artists
- Adams, Robert
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Watercolour, [interior of room], "St. Dominique"
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50211
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1306; 00021
- Date
- [before 1988]
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Date
- [before 1988]
- Fonds No.
- 1306
- File No.
- 00021
- Storage Location
- 7-1G
- CTN.002
- Creator
- Sylvia Bercovitch Ary
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Painters
- Montreal (Quebec)
- Bercovitch, Abram William, 1882-1962.
- Bercovitch, Alexander
- Artists
- Adams, Robert
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Forms, National Gallery of Canada, filled out by Alexander Bercovitch
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50207
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1306; 00017
- Date
- 1932, 1942
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Date
- 1932, 1942
- Fonds No.
- 1306
- File No.
- 00017
- Storage Location
- 7-1G
- CTN.002
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Painters
- Montreal (Quebec)
- Bercovitch, Abram William, 1882-1962.
- Bercovitch, Alexander
- Artists
- Adams, Robert
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Materials and news clippings regarding Alexander Bercovitch
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50216
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1306; 00026
- Date
- 1933-1987
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Date
- 1933-1987
- Fonds No.
- 1306
- File No.
- 00026
- Storage Location
- 7-1G
- CTN.002
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Painters
- Montreal (Quebec)
- Bercovitch, Abram William, 1882-1962.
- Bercovitch, Alexander
- Artists
- Adams, Robert
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Correspondence to and from Alexander Bercovitch
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50214
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1306; 00024
- Date
- 1935-1987
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Date
- 1935-1987
- Fonds No.
- 1306
- File No.
- 00024
- Storage Location
- 7-1G
- CTN.002
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Painters
- Montreal (Quebec)
- Bercovitch, Abram William, 1882-1962.
- Bercovitch, Alexander
- Artists
- Adams, Robert
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Museum catalogue, Art Gallery of Toronto, exhibition of Canadian paintings
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50232
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1306; 00041
- Date
- 1936
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Date
- 1936
- Fonds No.
- 1306
- File No.
- 00041
- Storage Location
- 7-1G
- CTN.003
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Painters
- Montreal (Quebec)
- Bercovitch, Abram William, 1882-1962.
- Bercovitch, Alexander
- Artists
- Adams, Robert
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
News clippings, Keneder Adler, regarding Bryna Bercovitch
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50220
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1306; 00030
- Date
- c1949
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Date
- c1949
- Fonds No.
- 1306
- File No.
- 00030
- Storage Location
- 7-1G
- CTN.003
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Painters
- Montreal (Quebec)
- Bercovitch, Abram William, 1882-1962.
- Bercovitch, Alexander
- Artists
- Adams, Robert
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Correspondence and news clippings on Alexander Bercovitch
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50221
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1306; 00031
- Date
- c1950
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Date
- c1950
- Fonds No.
- 1306
- File No.
- 00031
- Storage Location
- 7-1G
- CTN.003
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Regarding Alexander Bercovitch's participation in the Exhibit of Canadian Jewish Painters, Canadian Jewish Congress.
- Subjects
- Painters
- Montreal (Quebec)
- Bercovitch, Abram William, 1882-1962.
- Bercovitch, Alexander
- Artists
- Adams, Robert
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Textual materials regarding Musee d'art de Joliette
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50223
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1306; 00032
- Date
- 1945-1986
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Date
- 1945-1986
- Fonds No.
- 1306
- File No.
- 00032
- Storage Location
- 7-1G
- CTN.003
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Painters
- Montreal (Quebec)
- Bercovitch, Abram William, 1882-1962.
- Bercovitch, Alexander
- Artists
- Adams, Robert
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
News clippings and English translations, Keneder Adler tribute to Alexander Bercovitch
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50240
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1306; 00049
- Date
- 1951, c1987
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Date
- 1951, c1987
- Fonds No.
- 1306
- File No.
- 00049
- Storage Location
- 7-1G
- CTN.003
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Painters
- Montreal (Quebec)
- Bercovitch, Abram William, 1882-1962.
- Bercovitch, Alexander
- Artists
- Adams, Robert
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
News clippings regarding the death of Alexander Bercovitch
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50242
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1306; 00051
- Date
- 1951
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Date
- 1951
- Fonds No.
- 1306
- File No.
- 00051
- Storage Location
- 7-1G
- CTN.003
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Painters
- Montreal (Quebec)
- Bercovitch, Abram William, 1882-1962.
- Bercovitch, Alexander
- Artists
- Adams, Robert
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Poetry about Alexander Bercovitch
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50243
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1306; 00052
- Date
- [between 1951 and 1988]
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Date
- [between 1951 and 1988]
- Fonds No.
- 1306
- File No.
- 00052
- Storage Location
- 7-1G
- CTN.003
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Painters
- Montreal (Quebec)
- Bercovitch, Abram William, 1882-1962.
- Bercovitch, Alexander
- Artists
- Adams, Robert
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Copy of programme, "Exhibition of Paintings by Alexander Bercovitch and his daughter, Sylvia Ary"
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50222
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1306; 00032
- Date
- 1955
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Date
- 1955
- Fonds No.
- 1306
- File No.
- 00032
- Storage Location
- 7-1G
- CTN.003
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Painters
- Montreal (Quebec)
- Bercovitch, Abram William, 1882-1962.
- Bercovitch, Alexander
- Artists
- Adams, Robert
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Exhibition catalogue, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, "Canadian Jewish Artists"
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50231
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1306; 00040
- Date
- 1959
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Date
- 1959
- Fonds No.
- 1306
- File No.
- 00040
- Storage Location
- 7-1G
- CTN.003
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Painters
- Montreal (Quebec)
- Bercovitch, Abram William, 1882-1962.
- Bercovitch, Alexander
- Artists
- Adams, Robert
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Textual materials and research notes regarding Canadian Painters in the 1930s
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50227
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1306; 00036
- Date
- 1975-1988
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Date
- 1975-1988
- Fonds No.
- 1306
- File No.
- 00036
- Storage Location
- 7-1G
- CTN.003
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Painters
- Montreal (Quebec)
- Bercovitch, Abram William, 1882-1962.
- Bercovitch, Alexander
- Artists
- Adams, Robert
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Layout and plates for "The Life and Work of Alexander Bercovitch - Artist"
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50191
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1 file multiple media
- Fonds No.
- 1306; 00001
- Date
- c.1988
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1 file multiple media
- Date
- c.1988
- Fonds No.
- 1306
- File No.
- 00001
- Storage Location
- CTN.001
- 7-1A
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Painters
- Montreal (Quebec)
- Bercovitch, Abram William, 1882-1962.
- Bercovitch, Alexander
- Artists
- Adams, Robert
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Layout and plates for "The Life and Work of Alexander Bercovitch - Artist"
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50192
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1 file multiple media
- Fonds No.
- 1306; 00002
- Date
- c.1988
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 1 file multiple media
- Date
- c.1988
- Fonds No.
- 1306
- File No.
- 00002
- Storage Location
- CTN.001
- 7-1A
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Painters
- Montreal (Quebec)
- Bercovitch, Abram William, 1882-1962.
- Bercovitch, Alexander
- Artists
- Adams, Robert
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Press clippings and letter about Ruth Pressman
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50193
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1306; 00003
- Date
- [between 1981 and 1991]
- Collection
- Robert Adams Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Date
- [between 1981 and 1991]
- Fonds No.
- 1306
- File No.
- 00003
- Storage Location
- CTN.001
- 7-1G
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Painters
- Montreal (Quebec)
- Bercovitch, Abram William, 1882-1962.
- Bercovitch, Alexander
- Artists
- Adams, Robert
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
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