Published 02/05/2014
Browse hundreds of new images from the world’s largest collection of Canadian art for licensing.
We’re excited to represent hundreds of new images from the Art Gallery of Ontario for licensing and reproduction. Located in the heart of Toronto, the AGO comprises more than 25,000 works of art spanning over 1,000 years, and houses the world’s largest collection of Canadian art.
Founded in 1900, the Gallery also boasts many European, American, Oceanic and African masterpieces, prints and an extensive photography collection; but the stars of the show are the local works, with a focus on Toronto and Ontario, including First Nation and Inuit artists. Here are some highlights, all available for licensing from our website.
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Rare photography There is also a spectacular sunlight-on-water scene by Gustave Le Gray from the same period, which looks like Turner copied. |
Masterpieces on paper |
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Vernacular Canadian art |
Most well-known works are the sublime landscapes of the Group of Seven, artistic pioneers of the Canadian wilderness, who proved it worth immortalising, and pictured a modern national identity for Canadian art. Their works are elemental, full of romance, great distances, sunlight, and industry resources, and would look fantastic on your wall. The AGO (then called the Art Gallery of Toronto) was in fact the site of the Group’s first exhibition, in 1920.
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The woodlands of Tom Thomson (left), closely associated with the Group (though he died before its official formation) are ravishing. We’re also big fans of Franklin Carmichael’s remote peaks and open skies, and this surreal, desolate yet peaceful sketch of Lake Superior by Lawren Stewart Harris. Looking through them all is like flying through mountains, forests and lakes in a rickety biplane. See all Art Gallery of Ontario images for licensing
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