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The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO; French: Musée des beaux-arts de l'Ontario) is an art museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located in the Grange Park neighbourhood of downtown Toronto, on Dundas Street West.
Paintings in the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Pages in category "Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
The Galeries Ontario / Ontario Galleries (GOG), formerly Ontario Association of Art Galleries / Association Ontarienne des Galeries d’Art (OAAG/AOGA), was established in 1968 to encourage development of public art galleries, art museums, community galleries and related visual arts organizations in Ontario, Canada.
The Grange in 1910, shortly before it was transformed into an art museum. By the turn of the 20th century, it was decided that Toronto should have an art gallery, much like many other major cities at the time. By 1900, local artist George Reid was the president of the Ontario Society of Artists and was pushing for the creation of an art gallery.
Maia Sutnik joined the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in 1967 [2] and held many positions at the AGO, including in the Department of Photographic Resources in the 1970s. [3] [4] Through her job, she accumulated resources and gained public support for annual exhibitions of photographs at the AGO; they included work by Robert Bourdeau, Lynne Cohen and others.
[8] [9] The Art Gallery of Ontario, in its earlier incarnation as the Art Gallery of Toronto, was the site of their first exhibition as the Group of Seven in 1920. [2] The McMichael Canadian Art Collection was founded by Robert and Signe McMichael, who began collecting paintings by the Group of Seven and their contemporaries in 1955. [10]
Grange Park is a prominent and well-used public park in downtown Toronto, Ontario in Canada.It is located south of the Art Gallery of Ontario, next to the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU) and north of University Settlement House, at the north end of John Street.
Frum was a collector of African art and donated over 80 pieces to the Art Gallery of Ontario, one of the largest in North America; and along with his son-in-law, Howard Sokolowski, built the gallery in which the collection is housed. [2] He later expanded into Renaissance art. [2]