Mashel Teitelbaum

Mashel Teitelbaum (1921–1985) (variant name Mashel Alexander Teitelbaum) was a Canadian painter, born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1921. He was the father of museum director Matthew Teitelbaum.

Career Teitelbaum studied from 1950 to 1951 at the California School of Fine Arts with Clyfford Still and at Mills College with Max Beckmann. His style became increasingly abstract throughout his years of painting, going through many changes, among them single Zen-like improvised gestures on unprimed canvas. By 1967, he critiqued modern art, then in 1973, he made paint skin constructions, of acrylic paint peeled away when dry from polyethylene sheets to make collages. Teitelbaum was popular in the Toronto art community, and the Teitelbaum household was often visited by artists, politicians, and other Canadian media figures. Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina Vancouver Art Gallery.