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October 31, 2007
Top 10 'must-see stops' for Canadian art
OTTAWA
16 hours ago
The Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown, which is showing the photography exhibition "Yousuf Karsh: Industrial Images" until Nov. 25, has been included in a list of the top 10 "must-see stops" for Canadian art.
Canadian Geographic Travel magazine features the list in its winter 2007-2008 issue.
The magazine asked Shelley Falconer, senior curator at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ont., to come up with her top 10.
The Confederation Centre gallery, founded in 1964, is home to the largest collection of works by portraitist Robert Harris (1849-1919), who depicted many leading personalities of his day, including Sir John A. Macdonald.
The current exhibition presents Karsh's portraits of industrial workers.
Canadian Geographic also cites the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and its "encyclopedic collection of more than 33,000 objects."
"With a combination of neo-classical architecture and elegant urban design, the museum itself is a work of art."
The others on the list: Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver; Vancouver Art Gallery; Glenbow Museum, Calgary; McMichael Canadian Art Collection; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Musee national des beaux-arts du Quebec, Quebec City; and Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax.
Posted by kier at October 31, 2007 2:38 PM