The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - The Art Gallery of Ontario
Canada's oldest Art Gallery houses more than 15,000 works of art and attracts more than 800,000 visitors a year. It has the world's largest collection of sculptures by Sir Henry Moore and has recently undergone a massive expansion designed by the world-famous Toronto architect Frank Geary, best known as the designer of the Bilbao Museum.
The European collections include many old masters, among them Brueghel the Younger, Tintoretto, Rembrandt, Frans Hals, de la Tour, and Poussin. Most of the late 19th- and early 20th-century movements in painting are represented; among the pictures by the French Impressionists are canvases by Monet, Gauguin, Degas, and Renoir, and there are works by Chagall, Picasso, Dufy, and Modigliani. This collection will be enhanced by the addition of such works as the "Massacre of the Innocents" by Peter Raul Rubens, part of the Thomson Collection. The evolution of Canadian art can be followed, both in Quebec, with fine pictures by artists such as Joseph Legare and James Morrice, and most comprehensively of all, in English Canada, where there is a splendid selection of works by the Group of Seven and their associates. A real attraction is an innovative installation where you are taken through an intimate encounter with one of Canada's modern masterpieces.
The setting for the magnificent and unrivaled collection of Henry Moore sculptures dates from 1974 and was designed by the artist himself. Bronzes, plasters, and plaster maquettes are displayed in a large space with natural light entering the ceiling. The gallery's collection of Henry Moore's works contains several "Reclining Figures," one of the sculptor's favorite themes.
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