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The McMichael Canadian Art Collection is one of the only art museums whose permanent collection contains works exclusively by Canadian artists. [26] The permanent collection originates from the personal collection started by Robert and Signe McMichael in 1955; who later donated it to the province of Ontario in 1965. [ 5 ]
Michael Parke-Taylor (born August 5, 1953) is an independent art historian and curator who worked at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto in various positions for twenty-three years, retiring as Curator of Modern Art in 2011. He has published widely and is a collector of popular culture.
The community was founded in 1848 by John Nicholas Kline (1825–1854), a German-Canadian settler. A direct translation of the German word Kleinburg is 'small castle'. '. Residents argue that the community of Kleinburg could be named after its founder or after its landscape (although the latter would necessitate the spelling Kleinberg, which is German for 'small mo
Sarah Milroy CM (born 1957) [1] is the executive director and chief curator of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario, responsible for the 2021 exhibition and editor of the book Uninvited: Canadian women artists in the modern moment (2021), as well as co-editing with Ian Dejardin, the previous director, Tom Thomson: North Star (2023) [2] and contributing to numerous books ...
Robert Alliston McMichael CM O.Ont., D.Litt., LL. D (1921 – November 18, 2003) was a Canadian art collector and philanthropist . Together with his wife, he founded the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg.
[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]
It is a successor organization to the Southern Ontario Gallery Group founded in 1947, renamed the Art Institute of Ontario in 1952. In December 2020 Ontario Association of Art Galleries / Association Ontarienne des Galeries d’Art (OAAG/AOGA) rebranded to the name Galeries Ontario / Ontario Galleries (GOG) which included new brand identity ...
His paintings and etchings are held in many collections across Canada, including the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec in Quebec City, the Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton, the New Brunswick Museum in Saint John ...