Canadian Art

by Art Gallery of Ontario, Jeremy Adamson

Together with important First Nations material, the Thomson Canadian Collection is the largest of all private holdings of Canadian art. There are rare and incomparable examples of Northwest Coast Aboriginal art. Krieghoff’s inspired accounts of life in the Canadas, prior to Confederation, bring the light and atmosphere of history fully into the present. A staggering power to capture the fleeting and the fugitive in paint still distinguishes the work of the early 20th-century painter Morrice.

144 pages, Paperback

First published November 30, 2008

About the author

The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) is an art museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on Dundas Street West in the Grange Park neighbourhood.

Established in 1900 as the Art Museum of Toronto and formally incorporated in 1903, the museum was renamed the Art Gallery of Toronto in 1919, before adopting its present name, the Art Gallery of Ontario, in 1966.