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The McMichael Canadian Art Collection (MCAC) is an art museum in Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada. The museum is located on a 40-hectare (100-acre) property in Kleinburg , an unincorporated village in Vaughan.
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.
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.
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 ...
To support the CWAHI conference "Modernisms: Inside and Out" (2021), the McMichael Canadian Art Collection launched Uninvited, a major exhibition on women and art in the 1920s and 1930s which offered an opportunity to reassess women artists and what constituted modern art as a cultural force in Canada. [12]
In 2023, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection held a posthumous show of her work. [ 6 ] Maria Tippett describes Duff's 1895 painting Woman By the Sea as "half Primitive , half Symbolist ", noting that the painting contains a "sense of monumentality and timelessness".
From there, he became curator of collections at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection (1982-1988), where among other projects, he published Murals from a Great Canadian Train (1986), organized a show and book of Maria Chapdelaine: Illustrations by Clarence Gagnon, and initiated a David Milne exhibition (completed at the VAG in 1991 along with ...
[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]