Gerald Gladstone

Gerald Gladstone (7 January 1929 – 7 March 2005) was a Canadian sculptor and painter.

Life Born in 1929 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to Ralph and Dora Gladstone, Gerald was the sixth of nine children. In his youth, Gladstone was as committed to music as he was to painting, teaching himself to play the clarinet and forming a jazz band.

He married in his early twenties supporting his young family with a variety of jobs ending up with a position in commercial advertising. He set up a sculpture studio and began working on a series of welded pieces influenced by Constructivism. In the 1950s, Gladstone was exhibited by Toronto gallery owner Av Isaacs along with artists such as Michael Snow, Gordon Rayner, Graham Coughtry, and Tony Urquhart.

In 1959, he received his first Canada Council of the Arts grant and relocated to London, England. He studied at the Royal College of Art where he met and befriended the British sculptor Henry Moore. Under Moore's influence, Gladstone began a long period of experimentation with figurative work. The sculptures in the entrance of La Ronde in Montréal Québec Canada are made by Gladstone. Other works include:

McGillivray Fountain 1968, Exhibition Place, Toronto Pylon 1960, 170 Memorial Park Avenue, Toronto Solar Net 1963, Larkin Building (University of Toronto St. George Campus) Devonshire Place, Toronto Galaxy Series Number2 1967, inside Macdonald Block, 900 Bay Street, Toronto Female Landscape 1972, Place Ville Marie, Montreal

In 1990, Gladstone set up a studio in Beaverton, Ontario. The Art Gallery of Ontario held a retrospective of his work in 2003. He was made a member of Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Gladstone died on March 7, 2005, in Toronto. 2003: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto: Gladstone: Event Horizon

Selected collections National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto