Art Gallery of Ontario
  Art Gallery of Ontario |
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| Data | |
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| place |
Toronto , Ontario Canada
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| Art |
Art museum
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| architect |
Frank Gehry (extension and redesign 2008) |
| opening | 1900 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | 878,478 (2009) |
| operator |
Art Gallery of Ontario Foundation
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| management |
Matthew Teitelbaum
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| Website | |
The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO abbreviated) in the Canadian Toronto is one of the most important and 45,000 square meters of exhibition space also among the largest art museums in North America. The museum, located on the eastern edge of Chinatown , has three main collections: Canadian painting, European painting and sculptures by Henry Moore .
history
The art museum was founded in 1900 by a private initiative under the name Art Museum of Toronto . In 1919 the museum was renamed the Art Gallery of Toronto . In 1966 it was given its current name.
In 2007/2008 the building was completely redesigned by the architect Frank Gehry . The reopening took place on November 14, 2008.
collection
The museum has 68,000 exhibits, including works by Cornelius Krieghoff , Tom Thomson , Emily Carr , David Milne , Paul Peele and the group of seven artists in the Canadian painting collection. The museum devotes a special focus to contemporary Canadian artists.
European painting is represented by the works of u. a. Rembrandt van Rijn , Pieter Brueghel the Younger , Tintoretto , Frans Hals , Van Gogh , Monet , Gauguin , Edgar Degas , Renoir and Picasso as well as Rubens' The Massacre of the Innocents .
The Art Gallery of Ontario also has the world's largest collection by the English sculptor Henry Moore . In addition to a collection of large bronze sculptures, plaster models, engravings and drawings are shown.
Ken Thomson donated substantial parts of the collection .
Exhibitions
- 2007–2011: Installation by Iris Häussler : He Named Her Amber
Exhibition catalogs
- 2011: He Named Her Amber , Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ISBN 978-1-894243-68-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.ago.net General Information Fact Sheet - Attendance. Accessed April 14, 2011.
Coordinates: 43 ° 39 ′ 14 " N , 79 ° 23 ′ 34" W.