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Art Gallery of Ontario invites community to help honour over 5,000 child victims five years after deadly Sichuan earthquake
The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) will honour the youngest victims of the devastating 2008 earthquake in China’s Sichuan province by holding a live tribute on the opening weekend of its summer exhibition Ai Weiwei: According to What?
AGO presents legendary photographers Irving Penn, Arnaud Maggs and Richard Avedon for Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival
The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) shines new light on its own treasures this May with two new photography exhibitions co-presented with the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.
From the Collections
The Madrid Châsse, around 1180-1190, France (Limoges)
enamel, gilded copper alloy, gesso, traces of polychrome
16.9 x 23.1 x 8.9 cm
The Thomson Collection © Art Gallery of Ontario Allegory of Youth and Death
German (Augsburg or Munich), early 17th century
ivory, 7.3 x 22.6 x 9.4 cm
The Thomson Collection © Art Gallery of Ontario Franklin Carmichael
born Orillia, Ontario, 1890; died Toronto, Ontario, 1945
Snow Clouds, 1927
watercolour and gouache over graphite on wove paper, 43.7 x 57.2 cm
Gift from the Reuben and Kate Leonard Canadian Fund, 1928 Charles Paul Jérôme de Brea
born and died France, around 1739-1820
Portrait of Charlotte Corday (1768-1793), probably 1793
watercolour on ivory, enamel, and gilded metal, 7.7 cm (diameter)
The Thomson Collection © Art Gallery of Ontario Shield
Western Australia, mid-19th century
wood, ochre, 74.0 x 21.0 cm
Anonymous Gift, 2002 Cornelius Krieghoff
born Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1815; died Chicago, Illinois, United States, 1872
Mail Boat Landing at Quebec, 1860
oil on canvas, 42.5 x 62.0 cm
The Thomson Collection © Art Gallery of Ontario Jean-Honore Fragonard
born Grasse, France, 1732; died Paris, France, 1806
Charlemagne Leads Angelica away from Roland
illustration for Orlando Furioso Canto I (6-9) by Ariosto, around 1785
black chalk and brown wash and traces of graphite on laid paper, 40.0 x 46.0 cm
Purchase, Walter C. Laidlaw Endowment, 1978 Florence Carlyle
born Galt, Canada West (now Ontario), 1864; died Crowborough, England, 1923
The Tiff, around 1902
oil on canvas, 183.8 x 134.6 cm
Gift of the Government of Province of Ontario, 1972 Clarence Gagnon
born and died Montreal, Quebec, 1881-1942
Midnight Mass
oil on paper laid on wood, 18.8 x 22.7 cm
The Thomson Collection © Art Gallery of Ontario Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
born Leiden, The Netherlands, 1606; died Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1669
Portrait of a Lady with a Lap Dog, around 1665
oil on canvas, 81.3 x 64.1 cm
Bequest of Frank P. Wood, 1955
enamel, gilded copper alloy, gesso, traces of polychrome
16.9 x 23.1 x 8.9 cm
The Thomson Collection © Art Gallery of Ontario Allegory of Youth and Death
German (Augsburg or Munich), early 17th century
ivory, 7.3 x 22.6 x 9.4 cm
The Thomson Collection © Art Gallery of Ontario Franklin Carmichael
born Orillia, Ontario, 1890; died Toronto, Ontario, 1945
Snow Clouds, 1927
watercolour and gouache over graphite on wove paper, 43.7 x 57.2 cm
Gift from the Reuben and Kate Leonard Canadian Fund, 1928 Charles Paul Jérôme de Brea
born and died France, around 1739-1820
Portrait of Charlotte Corday (1768-1793), probably 1793
watercolour on ivory, enamel, and gilded metal, 7.7 cm (diameter)
The Thomson Collection © Art Gallery of Ontario Shield
Western Australia, mid-19th century
wood, ochre, 74.0 x 21.0 cm
Anonymous Gift, 2002 Cornelius Krieghoff
born Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1815; died Chicago, Illinois, United States, 1872
Mail Boat Landing at Quebec, 1860
oil on canvas, 42.5 x 62.0 cm
The Thomson Collection © Art Gallery of Ontario Jean-Honore Fragonard
born Grasse, France, 1732; died Paris, France, 1806
Charlemagne Leads Angelica away from Roland
illustration for Orlando Furioso Canto I (6-9) by Ariosto, around 1785
black chalk and brown wash and traces of graphite on laid paper, 40.0 x 46.0 cm
Purchase, Walter C. Laidlaw Endowment, 1978 Florence Carlyle
born Galt, Canada West (now Ontario), 1864; died Crowborough, England, 1923
The Tiff, around 1902
oil on canvas, 183.8 x 134.6 cm
Gift of the Government of Province of Ontario, 1972 Clarence Gagnon
born and died Montreal, Quebec, 1881-1942
Midnight Mass
oil on paper laid on wood, 18.8 x 22.7 cm
The Thomson Collection © Art Gallery of Ontario Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
born Leiden, The Netherlands, 1606; died Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1669
Portrait of a Lady with a Lap Dog, around 1665
oil on canvas, 81.3 x 64.1 cm
Bequest of Frank P. Wood, 1955
