Art Gallery of Ontario
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BiographyIn 1900, Sir Edmund Walker, who later became the Art Gallery's first president, and George A. Reid, President of the Ontario Society of Artists, formed a committee or artists, business and professional men with the intention of founding an art museum; and shortly afterwards the Ontario Legislature incorporated the Art Museum of Toronto. At first the Art Gallery had no home and no collection, but held occasional exhibitions as a guest of the Ontario Society of Artists in a gallery on King Street and later in the library on College Street. In 1909, thanks to a suggestion made by Sir Edmund Walker, Harriet Smith, widow of William Henry Boulton and wife of Goldwin Smith deeded The Grange together with its seven acres of parkland to the Gallery, which took up residence in 1912. The Art Museum of Toronto, renamed the Art Gallery of Toronto in 1919. It officially opened, June 1913. It was renamed the Art Gallery of Toronto in 1919 and renamed the Art Gallery of Ontario in 1966.Person TypeInstitution
Canadian, 1891 - 1941
