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Picturing the Americas

Posted: July 30, 2015 in galleries
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Landscape paintings depicting scenes from the top of North America to the tip of South America
are on display at the Art Gallery of Ontario until Sept 2015.   The collection centers on just over 100 works that were painted between the early 1800s and the eary 1900s.

7 or 8 people in an art gallery looking at paintings that are hanging on the walls

below:  part of a painting, ‘Montmorency Falls’ by Guido Carmignani (Parma Italy 1838-1909)
oil on canvas,  1869

close up of part of a painting - Montmorency Falls by Guido Carmignani 1869, Italian hunters at the base of the falls (even though they are in Quebec) in summer time.

below: Fall Plowing, by Grant Wood (b. and d. Iowa USA),  1931, oil on canvas

painting on a wall in an art gallery of fields being harvested by Grant Wood

 

A man is looking at a wall of paintings. The wall is painted red. It is in an art gallery

close up of part of a painting including part of the intricately carved frame. THree men getting into a boat at the edge of a river

 below: part of “The Sidewheeler, the ‘City of St. Paul’ on the Mississippi River, Dubuque Iowa”
by Alfred Thompson Bricher (American), oil on canvas,  1872

close up of part of an oil painting showing an old paddle wheel steam boat on a river

ivory, stone, and bone

Posted: May 22, 2015 in galleries
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Animals, people, and figures from his Inuit culture and tradition
carved and sculpted from bones, ivory and stones,

the work of Manasie Akapaliapik, Art Gallery of Ontario, until June 2015

part of a sculpture by Manasie Akpaliapik made of bone, ivory and stone, a man's face

part of a sculpture by Manasie Akpaliapik made of bone, ivory and stone, a person's face

part of a sculpture by Manasie Akpaliapik made of bone, ivory and stone, the head of a walrus
part of a sculpture by Manasie Akpaliapik made of bone, ivory and stone, a man like creature with a man's face but with walrus tusks

Last Folio

Posted: February 17, 2015 in galleries, history
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Last Folio, A Living Monument to the Holocaust
An exhibit of photographs by Yuri Dojc,
at the Art Gallery of Ontario

Yuri Dojc was born in Slovakia but is now based in Toronto.
Starting in the 1990’s he has returned to Slovakia a number of times in search of traces of Jewish life from prior to WW2.

a close up of a photograph of an old book, open, with the pages on one side all curled up. The photo is taken from the top of the book.

Details of one of the photographs in the exhibit.

There are only eight photographs in this exhibit but each one tells a story.   Narratives of loss and of life interrupted.
But also stories of memory and remembrance.

 More information about the Last Folio project.

 

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