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| Works illuminate Davisville |
Sorel Etrog, the immigrant sculptor who left his mark on a city and on the world, has died in Toronto, his adopted home of 50 years. He was 80. The Toronto Star’s visual arts writer Murray Whyte is saying tonight (Wednesday, February 26, 2014) that Etrog’s gestural figurative style allied him with giants of Modern art like Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth. He leaves a legacy of public sculptures, many of which illuminate Davisville Avenue on the properties owned by Greenwin Inc. Whyte reports that the Etrog will spirit live on in a sculpture centre which is set to open soon at Mount Sinai Hospital. It will feature more than 100 of Etrog’s works designed, as the hospital’s chief of psychiatry describes it, “a place of intervention.” Ertrog’s near-lifetime of creating works in bronze and other metals around Toronto will be particularly familiar to those who live and work in the Davisville Ave and Balliol Street neighborhood between Yonge St. and Mt. Pleasant Rd. His work became a kind of signature for the Greewin developments in that area when principals of the company commissioned a number of pieces in the 1960s. Murray Whyte
