1923-2005 - Ghitta Caiserman-Roth was born in Montreal, Canada. She started painting as a child, under the guidance of Alexander Bercovitch, achieving a Honourable Mention at the Art Association of Montreal Spring Exhibition at age eleven. She later graduated from the Parson's School of Design in New York City with a post-graduate scholarship. She also studied at the American Artists' School, The Art Students' League, and with the painter Moses Soyer. Worked with Albert Dumouchel in Graphics at the École des Beaux Arts, Montreal, under a Canada Council Senior Fellowship in 1961-1962. First major sale, Ghitta Caiserman-Roth feels, was to A.Y. Jackson, and her first major public gallery sale was her painting "Backyard" to the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1949