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Discover Canada names the Group of Seven, Emily Carr, Les Automatistes and Kenojuak Ashevak among important Canadian visual-arts examples. It presents cultural achievement in both English and French and across regions and communities.
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Photo: John Vanderpant · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
The Owens Art Gallery opened in 1895 on the campus of Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick.
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Photo: D. Gordon E. Robertson · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 · Credit & context
The Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke was founded in 1982 by a group of art lovers. It has become the principal institution for preserving and sharing visual art in Quebec’s Eastern Townships.
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Photo: Philip Bastarache · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 · Credit & context
The Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown began collecting in 1964. Its holdings include research material on Robert Harris, the Charlottetown-raised painter of The Fathers of Confederation.
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Photo: Larry from Charlottetown, PEI, Canada · Photo licence: CC BY 2.0 · Credit & context
The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria opened in 1951 in a mansion built in 1889. Its collection brings together historical and contemporary art.
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Photo: Joe Mabel (on Flickr as Joe Mabel from Seattle, US) · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 · Credit & context
Art Windsor-Essex, formerly the Art Gallery of Windsor, is a public art gallery in Windsor, Ontario, where art is made, presented and shared through exhibitions, programs and events.
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The Ottawa Art Gallery explores the community’s history and development through art. Its expanded building, designed by KPMB and Régis Côté Architects, opened on April 28, 2018.
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Photo: Jeangagnon · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credit & context
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery on Toronto’s waterfront opened in 1987 in a former coal-burning powerhouse built in 1926.
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The Art Gallery of Hamilton opened on Sunday, June 28, 1914, with an inaugural exhibition of paintings by the Hamilton-born artist William Blair Bruce.
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The Beaverbrook Art Gallery’s permanent collection began in 1959 with a gift of 300 works from Lord Beaverbrook. Its early collection focused on British and Canadian painting.
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Photo: Vascobattuta at English Wikipedia · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
The McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario, preserves historical and contemporary Canadian and Indigenous art. Its collection includes work by Tom Thomson, the Group of Seven and generations of Indigenous artists.
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Photo: Stephanie Spencer · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 2.5 · Credit & context
The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax traces its history to 1908. It took its present name under the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Act in 1975.
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The Winnipeg Art Gallery opened in 1912. In 2021 it expanded with Qaumajuq, an Inuit art centre, bringing a dedicated space for Inuit art into its Winnipeg cultural campus.
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Photo: Cayla at English Wikipedia · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
The Art Gallery of Alberta in downtown Edmonton presents Alberta’s artistic heritage alongside work by international artists. Its exhibitions support cultural exchange through visual art.
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Photo: Stella Blu · Photo licence: CC BY 2.0 · Credit & context
Founded in 1860, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts collects and presents art from different cultures and periods. Its collections include Quebec and Canadian heritage, Indigenous art and international art.
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Photo: Thomas Ledl · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credit & context
The Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto holds Indigenous, Canadian, European and contemporary art. Its exhibitions and programs bring these collections into dialogue with artists and audiences.
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Photo: Owen Byrne from Ottawa, Canada · Photo licence: CC BY 2.0 · Credit & context
Naturalist Allan Brooks won international recognition as a wildlife illustrator in the first half of the 20th century, influencing later artists. As Western Canada’s leading ornithologist he helped professionalize the field, and he collected thousands of bird and animal skins for major museum research collections. Through his illustrations and publications he introduced generations to the birds of North America.
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Photo: William Edwin Gledhill (1888–1976) - photographer · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
Horatio Walker, born at Listowel, Ontario, learned watercolour in Toronto and was largely self-taught. In 1883 he settled on Île d’Orléans, where for more than fifty years he painted rural life. Elected to the Royal Canadian Academy in 1918, he became its president in 1925. His traditional portrayals of people and animals won international acclaim and hang in major American galleries and the National Gallery of Canada.
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Photo: Melvin Ormond Hammond (1876 - 1934) · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
David Milne was one of the first Canadian artists to explore modernist styles and subjects, in paintings, watercolours and prints built on subtle arrangements of colour, space and line. He left Paisley, Ontario, for New York in 1903 and showed at the Armory Show in 1913, then became a Canadian war artist in the First World War. Returning to Ontario in 1929, he painted at Temagami, Palgrave, Six Mile Lake, Toronto, Uxbridge and Bancroft.
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Percy Erskine Nobbs, a Scottish-born architect, educator, writer and critic, helped advance architecture in early 20th-century Canada. He taught at McGill and wrote on town planning, public housing design and Canadian architecture as a national art. His remarkable, finely built designs, inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement, reflect his strong commitment to fine craftsmanship.
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James Wilson Morrice, born in Montréal, was a landscape painter active in Canada and Europe. Largely self-taught and influenced by contemporaries such as Whistler and Matisse, he used and transformed light to convey atmosphere. He lived in Paris, showed his work in many cities including Montréal, and his paintings were reviewed by leading critics and acquired by major museums.
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Photo: Unknown photographer; Archives of Ontario · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
Robert Tait McKenzie, born in Lanark County, Ontario, graduated in medicine at McGill and became its medical director of physical training in 1894. A pioneer of physical education, he served as a surgeon in the First World War and developed widely adopted rehabilitation methods. He won international acclaim for sculptures of athletes; his medallion The Joy of Effort was set in Stockholm’s Olympic Stadium in 1912.
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Charles Marega, an Italian-Canadian sculptor, created many notable monuments in British Columbia after arriving in 1909, first in the Beaux-Arts style and later in Art Deco. He helped found both the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts. The lions of the Lions Gate Bridge, his last public work in the city, are among Vancouver’s best-known icons.
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Photo: Unknown photographer; Archives of Ontario · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
Maurice Cullen, born in St. John’s, studied sculpture in Montréal under Philippe Hébert and painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Returning in 1895, he taught at the Art Association of Montreal and in the First World War served overseas as an official war artist. His international reputation rests mainly on his impressionist views of the Canadian winter.
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Photo: Unknown photographer; Archives of Ontario · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context