Events

Partners in Art Golf Event 2013

17 June 2013

June 17, 2013

Register your team by email or phone at development@ottawaartgallery.ca

Exhibitions

Explode: Marcelle Ferron and Rita Letendre

May 25 to Sept. 8, 2013
Marcelle Ferron, Rita Letendre

Marcelle Ferron quit the École des beaux-arts du Québec in 1944, and Rita Letendre quit the École des beaux-arts de Montréal in 1950. Both traded the confines of rigorous academic fine art training for the lure of Quebec abstract artist Paul-Émile Borduas and his Automatiste philosophy. Though aesthetically disparate, both women created explosions of luminosity on their canvases. Explode brings together their mid-twentieth century works from the National Gallery of Canada and the Canada Council Art Bank to contextualize those found in the Firestone Collection of Canadian Art.

In Focus: A Collector's History

Selections from the Firestone Collection of Canadian Art
Artists: Molly Lamb Bobak, Frank Carmichael, Emily Carr, A.J. Casson, Allan Collier, Maurice Cullen, L.L. FitzGerald, Bruce Garner, Lawren S. Harris, Robert Harris, Arthur Lismer, Henri Masson, Doris McCarthy, Norval Morrisseau, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Marian Scott, Gordon Smith, Harold Town

The Firestone Collection of Canadian Art was built upon O.J. and Isobel Firestone’s mission to educate the public about the merit of Canadian art. In Focus: A Collector's History explores the Firestones’ drive to form an inclusive collection representing a diverse range of Canadian art styles, geographic regions, time periods and artists.