Art Modern (late 19th Century To 1945)
A Story of Canadian Art
- Publisher
- Art Museum University of Toronto
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2017
- Category
- Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780772706652
- Publish Date
- Nov 2017
- List Price
- $20.00
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Description
A Story of Canadian Art: As Told by the Hart House Collection documents an important chapter in the modern history of collecting and reveals how collections contribute to the shaping of both art history and national identity. Hart House was gifted by the Massey family to the University of Toronto in 1919 as a cultural centre where students, faculty, and the broader public could mingle and converse. Since the early 1920s, the Hart House Art Committee - comprised of students, artists, faculty, and staff - has been collecting art, originally focusing on the work of the Group of Seven and their contemporaries, as well as the Beaver Hall Group and Canadian Group of Painters. This unique collection rapidly gained a national and international reputation, with works loaned to exhibitions at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC and the Tate Gallery in London, UK, among others.