Art Gallery of Ontario

Founded in 1900 by a group of private citizens as the Art Museum of Toronto, the Art Gallery of Ontario is now the 10th largest art museum in North America, with a physical facility of 486,000 square feet. Collection The AGO currently has more than 40,000 works in its collection, spanning 100 AD to present day. Highlights include: * More than 40% of the collection vividly documents the development of Canada’s art heritage, from pre-Confederation to current times, including one of the largest and finest Inuit art collections in the world. The collection includes pivotal works by Cornelius Krieghoff, Lucius O’Brien, James Wilson Morrice, Tom Thomson, the Group of Seven, David Milne, Emily Carr and Paul-Emile Borduas. * Major holdings of the work of pre-eminent Canadian artists Paterson Ewen, Betty Goodwin, Greg Curnoe, David Blackwood, Kazuo Nakamura and American artist Robert Motherwell. * The world’s largest public collection of works by internationally-renowned British sculptor Henry Moore. * Masterpieces of European art including works by renowned artists such as Anthony van Dyck, Thomas Gainsborough, Auguste Rodin, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and René Magritte. * A collection of photographs representing the emergence of the medium in its artistic, cultural and social diversity. Works by 19th century British, French, American and Canadian photographers, and 20th century modernists, including one of the foremost collections of works by Josef Sudek. * A contemporary collection illustrating the evolution of artistic movements in Canada, the U.S. and Europe, including major works by Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, Mary Kelly, Jannis Kounellis, Jenny Holzer, General Idea, Joanne Tod, Jeff Wall, Rebecca Belmore and Luciano Fabro. Exhibitions As one of Canada’s most distinguished art museums, the AGO organizes and hosts a wide spectrum of major exhibitions. Over the past decade, the AGO has presented: * Tom Thomson, 2003 * Voyage into Myth: French Painting from Gauguin to Matisse, from the Hermitage Museum, 2002 * Y E S YOKO ONO, 2002 * Treasures from the Hermitage Museum, Russia: Rubens and His Age, 2001 * Greg Curnoe: Life and Stuff, 2001 * Matisse from the Baltimore Museum of Art, 2000 * Cindy Sherman Retrospective, 1999 * Krieghoff: Images of Canada 1999 * The Courtauld Collection, 1998 * The Art of Betty Goodwin 1998 * The Warhol Look: Glamour, Style, Fashion, 1998 * The OH!Canada Project, 1996 * Paterson Ewen: Earthly Weathers/Heavenly Skies, 1996 * From Cézanne to Matisse: Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation, 1994