Ellen Simon was born in Toronto and studied art at the
Ontario College of Art, Toronto with
Yvonne McKague Housser, among others; the
Art Students League of New York (1936-1940); and the New School for Social Research in Toronto. She studied stained-glass by apprenticing with
Yvonne Williams in Toronto and with the Joep Nicolas Studio in the Netherlands. a monthly Toronto magazine of literature and social criticism (1936-1937) begun in the Depression. Her major work was as a creator of stained-glass windows for churches, synagogues and universities. For almost 40 years she was a colleague of Yvonne Williams and worked in her Toronto studio at commissions in Canada and the U.S.A. Among the churches for which she created the stained glass along with Yvonne Williams and
Rosemary Kilbourne is St. Michael & All Angels Church in Toronto. Her graphics are in the collection of the
Art Gallery of Ontario and the
National Gallery of Canada. Ellen Simon taught at Riverside Church, New York from 1965 on. Ellen Simon died on November 19, 2011, in
Amesbury, Massachusetts. ==References==