Ellen Maidman-Tanner

Figure study of the "Marvelous Manou”

Ellen Maidman-Tanner began drawing as a child, leading to a lifelong passion for the arts.

She attended the Philadelphia College of Art and completed her BFA at York University, Toronto, in 1974. Her sculptures and installations were shown at the Center for Experimental Art and Communication and at A Space Gallery, as well as appearing in several juried exhibits.  She participated in panel discussions on women as artists and on contemporary art, and appeared in Vera Frenkel’s work String Games, a video performance piece shown in Toronto and Montreal.

After her last one-woman show in 1978 in Jerusalem, comprised of two large installations, multi-media works and drawings, she became a successful business executive for 3 decades. During her time away from art as her primary activity, she exhibited in several group shows and had a large sculpture approved for installation at the Jewish Museum in Washington, DC. Her practice throughout the period consisted mainly of drawing and painting the landscapes and wildlife of the Caribbean.

Since her retirement in December of 2017, she has returned full-time to the studio, focusing on life drawing in graphite and landscapes in oil. Her work is in private collections in the US, Spain, and Denmark, and was shown at Dacia Gallery in New York in 2019.

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