AGO
The architect that designed the 2008 expansion
FRANK GEHRY
This painter lived and worked primarily in Nova Scotia. Perhaps his most iconic work, entitled "To Prince Edward Island", depicts a woman on a ferry who is holding up a large pair of binoculars, which obscure her eyes.
ALEX COLVILLE
This artist sold a balloon dog for $58.4mm
JEFF KOONS
It's about a 30-minute walk from the Rembrandt House Museum to the Amsterdam museum named for this artist
VAN GOGH
In the 1930s an exiled Leon Trotsky and his wife came to stay with these 2 married artists in Mexico
Kahlo and Rivera
This major exhibition scheduled to run at the AGO from June 27-September 2020 was forced to cancel because of COVID-19.
PICASSO: PAINTING THE BLUE PERIOD
This woman lived from 1871 to 1945 was well-known for her paintings of Native Canadian artifacts, particularly totem poles. She went on to a series of Impressionist-like studies.
EMILY CARR
Leonardo da Vinci (Salvator Mundi)
Frank Lloyd Wright intended visitors to this NYC museum that he designed to start at the top & spiral their way down
THE GUGGENHEIM
Discovered on an Aegean island on April 8 1820 this marble statue was presented to Louis XVIII who donated it to the Louvre
THE VENUS DE MILO
The US state where our fearless leader, Stephan Jost, was born.
MICHIGAN
Loosely-knit fraternity of Canadian artists active from roughly 1920-1933.
The Group of Seven
BANKSY
This NYC borough's museum created such a sensation that mayor Giuliani tried to cut off its funding
THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM
In 2015 after 10 years of study a French scientist said he found a hidden portrait beneath this Leonardo portrait
THE MONA LISA
The artist that painted "Portrait of a Lady Holding an Orange Blossom", the AGO's most exciting new acquisition.
UNKNOWN
This artist drowned in Algonquin Park at the age of 27.
Tom Thomson
This artist painted the most expensive artwork ever to sell at a Canadian Auction
Lawren Harris, Mountain Forms, $11.2 million
The National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. is part of this museum complex
THE SMITHSONIAN
Andre Breton called the art of this fellow 20th c. artist the most hallucinatory known until now
(SALVADOR) DALI
This art program, hosted in the Weston Family Learning Centre and designed to support artists, is the first of its kind at a major Canadian art institution.
He recently apologized for his artwork showing the sexual assault of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Kent Monkman
Han van Meegeren sold $60 million worth of fake paintings by this Baroque period artist during the 1930s.
JOHANNES VERMEER
The land and building for this world famous museum was gifted by Harriet Dixon after her death in 1909
Art Museum of Toronto (i.e. Art Gallery of Ontario)
Picasso painted this work as a protest against the bombing of a town in the Spanish Civil War
GUERNICA