Art Gallery of Ontario
The Art Gallery of Ontario ( Located Downtown Toronto) was founded in 1900 by a group of private citizens as the Art Museum of Toronto, the Art Gallery of Ontario is one of the largest art museums in North America, with a physical facility of 486,000 square feet. Currently under construction, the AGO’s new facility will boast 583,000 square feet, and will re-open in 2008 with an innovative architectural design by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry.
Collection
The AGO currently has more than 68,000 works in its collection, spanning from 100 AD to the present. Highlights include:
More than 40% of the collection vividly documents the development of Canada’s art heritage since pre-Confederation, including one of the largest and finest Inuit art collections in the world. The collection includes pivotal works by Cornelius Krieghoff, Lucius O’Brien, James Wilson Morrice, Tom Thomson, the Group of Seven, David Milne, Emily Carr and Paul-Emile Borduas.
Major holdings of the work of pre-eminent Canadian artists Paterson Ewen, Betty Goodwin, Greg Curnoe, David Blackwood, Kazuo Nakamura and American artist Robert Motherwell. The world’s largest public collection of works by internationally renowned British sculptor Henry Moore. Masterpieces of European art, including works by renowned artists such as Anthony van Dyck, Thomas Gainsborough, Auguste Rodin, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and René Magritte.
A collection of photographs representing the emergence of the medium in its artistic, cultural and social diversity. Works by 19th-century British, French, American and Canadian photographers, and 20th-century modernists, including one of the foremost collections of works by Josef Sudek.
A contemporary collection illustrating the evolution of artistic movements in Canada, the U.S. and Europe, including major works by Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, Mary Kelly, Jannis Kounellis, Jenny Holzer, General Idea, Joanne Tod, Jeff Wall, Rebecca Belmore and Luciano Fabro.
ExhibitionsAs one of Canada’s most distinguished art museums, the AGO organizes and hosts a wide spectrum of major exhibitions. Over the past decade, the AGO has presented:
- Emily Carr: New Perspectives on a Canadian Icon, 2007
- Two Photographers. Two Visions Ansel Adams/Alfred Eisenstaedt, 2007
- ANDY WARHOL/SUPERNOVA: Stars, Deaths and Disasters 1962–1964, 2006
- The Shape of Colour: Excursions in Colour Field Art, 1950 – 2005, 2005
- Catherine the Great: Arts for the Empire – Masterpieces from the Hermitage Museum, Russia, 2005
- Massive Change: The Future of Global Design, 2005
- Turner, Whistler, Monet: Impressionist Visions, 2004
- Tom Thomson, 2003
- Voyage into Myth: French Painting from Gauguin to Matisse, from the Hermitage Museum, 2002
- Y E S YOKO ONO, 2002
- Treasures from the Hermitage Museum, Russia: Rubens and His Age, 2001
- Greg Curnoe: Life and Stuff, 2001
- Matisse from the Baltimore Museum of Art, 2000
- Cindy Sherman Retrospective, 1999
- Krieghoff: Images of Canada 1999
- The Courtauld Collection, 1998
- The Art of Betty Goodwin 1998The Warhol Look: Glamour, Style, Fashion, 1998
- The OH!Canada Project, 1996
- Paterson Ewen: Earthly Weathers/Heavenly Skies, 1996
- From Cézanne to Matisse: Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation, 1994
Location:
Art Gallery of Ontario
317 Dundas Street West Toronto Ontario Canada M5T 1G4.
Website: www.ago.net
Toll free: 1-877-225-4246
Local: 416 979 6648
Adults – $18
Senior (65 and over) – $15
Student (full-time with valid ID) – $10
Youth (ages 6–12) – $10
Children (5 and under with adult) – FREE
Members – FREE
The Art Gallery of Peterborough is a not-for-profit public art gallery situated on the shore of Little Lake, a short walk from the centre of downtown. It is in a house, known as the Foster house, which was built in the early 20th century, with many additions. In 1977, the Art Gallery of Peterborough acquired the house.
The entire building measures 11,000 square feet of which the main gallery space comprises 1,600 square feet. There is also a system of four ramps providing 240 running feet of display space for smaller photographs, works on paper, and paintings. The Art Gallery of Peterborough’s goal is to present contemporary visual art by artists from the immediate area, region and nation. Its mandate includes an initiative to stimulate interest in and knowledge of art by the citizens of the City and County of Peterborough, by whatever means that are deemed appropriate.