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| Established | 1957 |
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| Location | 36 University Avenue, Kingston, Ontario, Canada |
| Coordinates | 44°13′31.4″N76°29′46.5″W / 44.225389°N 76.496250°W |
| Type | Art museum |
| Director | Emelie Chhangur |
| Website | agnes |
The Agnes Etherington Art Centre is located in Kingston, Ontario, on the campus of Queen's University. The gallery has received a number of awards for its exhibitions from the Canada Council for the Arts, [1] the Ontario Association of Art Galleries [2] and others.
The Agnes Etherington Art Centre has its roots in the Kingston Art and Music Club, founded in 1926, and owes its existence to Agnes McCausland Richardson Etherington (1880–1954), [3] a driving force behind the club. [4] Agnes Etherington's grandfather had founded the grain dealer James Richardson & Sons in 1857 and the family had become very wealthy. Agnes's brother George Richardson, who died fighting in World War I in 1916, left a legacy for her to use as she felt fit to stimulate development of the arts at Queen's University. She used this to found the George Taylor Richardson Memorial Fund, [5] which still provides an important source of arts funding to the university. [6]
Agnes Etherington bequeathed her house, an elegant Neo-Georgian mansion, to Queen's University for use as a university and community art gallery. The Agnes Etherington Art Centre opened to the public in 1957. The building was extended in 1962, 1975, 1978 and 2000, and now has an area of 1,720 square metres. [7]
In addition to the historical Etherington House and nine galleries, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre features a studio, atrium, a publications lounge and the David McTavish Art Study Room.
Through the fall and winter, lectures, discussions, tours, custom seminars and screenings. Each summer, the gallery offers an art-intensive summer day camp for children and an art course of teens.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre holds over 17,000 works ranging from the 14th century to the present, placing it among the largest galleries in Ontario. It includes paintings, sculptures, and graphics by major Canadian artists, European old master paintings, African art, historical dress, quilts, silver and decorative art. [8]
The Canadian Historical collection primarily representing the history of Canadian fine art in the Euro-American tradition, it also reflects the evolving Canadian cultural matrix through Inuit and Indigenous art and artifacts, as well as historic dress and decorative arts. The collection is notable for fine early topographical watercolours and major 20th-century paintings, and encompasses material connected to regional history in the Queen's University Collection of Canadian Dress, the Heritage Quilt Collection, and the Silver Collection. The Canadian historical collection includes works by: Andre Charles Bieler, Tom Thomson, Emily Carr, Lawren Harris, Arthur Lismer, Frederick Varley, Edwin Holgate, LeMoine FitzGerald, Fernand Leduc, Ozias Leduc, David Milne, William Ronald, Carl Beam, William Henry Bartlett, William Brymner, Kananginak Pootoogook, Pitseolak Ashoona
The Contemporary Art Collection features visual art, with emphasis on the emerging generation of artists and works that reflect contemporary life and Canadian society. It is national in scope. The Contemporary collection includes works by: Charles Stankievech, Rebecca Belmore, Judy Radul, Brendan Fernandes, Luis Jacob, Vera Frenkel, David Rokeby, Norman White, Robert Houle, Shary Boyle, AA Bronson, General Idea, Ian Carr-Harris, Sarindar Dhaliwal, Andre Fauteux, Kim Ondaatje, Derek Sullivan
The European Art Collection holds many paintings, prints, and drawings of exceptional quality and depth. The heart of the European collection is The Bader Collection, with over 200 paintings donated by philanthropist Alfred Bader and Isabel Bader. The European collection includes works by Rembrandt van Rijn, Willem Drost, Jan Lievens, Govert Flinck, Aert de Gelder, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Godfrey Kneller, Philips Koninck, Ferdinand Bol, El Greco, Dosso Dossi, Michael Sweerts, Luca Giordano, Georg Pencz, Sebastien Bourdon, Peter Lely, Joseph Wright of Derby, Raphael, Parmigianino, Guido Reni, Gustav Klimt, and Pablo Picasso.
Numbering over 500 objects, the Justin and Elisabeth Lang Collection of African Art ranks among Canada's most comprehensive and significant African Art collections. Comprising primarily works by West and Central African peoples.
The Art Centre has issued many publications over the years. [9] A selection follows:
| Title | Author(s) | |
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| Brendan Fernandes: Lost Bodies | Jan Allen, Delinda Collier, Kevin D. Dumouchelle, Amanda Gilvin, Amanda Jane Graham, Erica P. Jones, & Nat Trotman | ISBN 978-1-55339-493-8 |
| I'm Not Myself at All: Deirdre Logue & Allyson Mitchell | Sarah E. K. Smith & Heather Love | ISBN 978-1-55339-408-2 |
| The Artist Herself: Self-Portraits by Canadian Historical Women Artists | Alicia Boutilier & Tobi Bruce | ISBN 978-1-55339-407-5 |
| Bernard Clark: Tattoo Portraits | Jan Allen | ISBN 978-1-55339-261-3 |
| Vera Frenkel's String Games | Jan Allen & Earl Miller | ISBN 978-1-55339-259-0 |
| Annie Pootoogook: Kinngait Compositions | Jan Allen | ISBN 978-1-55339-260-6 |
| Lost and Found: Wright of Derby's View of Gibraltar | John Bonehill, Janet M. Brooke, Barbara Klempan, David de Witt | ISBN 978-1-55339-258-3 |
| Don Maynard: Franken Forest | Jan Allen & Linda Jansma | ISBN 978-1-55339-256-9 |
| William Brymner: Artist, Teacher, Colleague | Alicia Boutilier & Paul Maréchal | ISBN 9781553392514 |
| Sorting Daemons: Art, Surveillance Regimes and Social Control | Jan Allen, Kirsty Robertson & Sarah E.K. Smith | ISBN 978-1-55339-253-8 |
| Karin Davie: Underworlds | Jan Allen | ISBN 978-1-55339-095-4 |
| The Bader Collection: Dutch and Flemish Paintings | David de Witt | ISBN 978-1-55339-094-7 |
| Beyond the Silhouette: Fashion and the Women of Historic Kingston | M. Elaine MacKay | ISBN 978-1-55339-093-0 |
| Etherington House: Building a Legacy | Patricia Sullivan | ISBN 978-1-55339-091-6 |
| Lyla Rye: Hopscotch | Kenneth Hayes | ISBN 978-1-55339-092-3 |
| Telling Stories, Secret Lives | Jan Allen, Steven Matijcio et al. | ISBN 978-1-55339-088-6 |
| Neutrinos They Are Very Small | Jan Allen, Corinna Ghaznavi & Allison Morehead | ISBN 978-1-55339-089-3 |
| "An Artist After All": Daniel Fowler in Canada | Dorothy M. Farr | ISBN 1-55339-090-3 |
| Sarindar Dhaliwal: Record Keeping | Sunil Gupta, Richard Fung, Janice Cheddie et al. | ISBN 1-899127-05-4 |
| Erik Edson: Fable | Jan Allen & Catherine Osborne | ISBN 1-55339-086-5 |
| Ah, Wilderness! Resort Architecture in the Thousand Islands | Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey & Dorothy Farr | ISBN 0-88911-543-5 |
| Machine Life | Jan Allen, Ihor Holubizky & Caroline Seck Langill | ISBN 0-88911-918-X |
| Gary Kibbins: Grammar Horses | Jan Allen & Gary Kibbins | ISBN 0-88911-916-3 |
| Connected: Contemporary Art in Kingston | Jan Allen (ed) | ISBN 0-88911-912-0 |
| Museopathy | Jan Allen, Jim Drobnick & Jennifer Fisher | ISBN 0-88911-908-2 |
| Better Worlds: Activist and Utopian Projects by Artists | Jan Allen & Laura Marks | ISBN 0-88911-912-0 |
| Who Means What: Brent Roe, Paintings 1992-2001 | John Armstrong | ISBN 0-88911-906-6 |
| Laurel Woodcock: Take Me, I'm Yours | Jan Allen & Paul Kelley | ISBN 0-88911-827-2 |
| Gretchen Sankey: Some of the Parts | Jan Allen | ISBN 0-88911-754-3 |
| Jayce Salloum | Jim Drobnick & Jennifer Fisher | ISBN 0-88911-752-7 |
| Crime and Punishment | Jennifer Rudder | ISBN 0-88911-750-0 |
| Flaming Creatures: New Tendencies in Canadian Video. | Gary Kibbins | ISBN 0-88911-748-9 |
| Tapes that Think: Video Works by Steve Reinke, Tran T. Kim-Trang, Rodney Werden | Gary Kibbins | ISBN 0-88911-702-0 |
| Edifice | Jan Allen | ISBN 0-88911-748-9 |
| Germaine Koh: Persona | Jan Allen | ISBN 0-88911-744-6 |
| Of Mudlarkers and Measurers | S. Dhaliwal | ISBN 0-88911-742-X |
| Rise and Fall: John Dickson, Laurie Walker. | Jan Allen et al. | ISBN 0-88911-706-3 |
| Sophie Bellissent: In the Flesh | Jan Allen | ISBN 0-88911-740-3 |
| RX: Taking Our Medicine | Jan Allen & Kim Sawchuck | ISBN 0-88911-698-9 |
| Pictorial Incidents The Photography of William Gordon Shields | Michael Bell | ISBN 0-88911-504-4 |
| A. A. Chesterfield Ungava Portraits 1902-04 | William C. James | ISBN 0-88911-373-4 |
| Heritage Quilt Collection | Ruth McKendry & Dorothy Farr | ISBN 0-88911-539-7 |
Willem Drost was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker of history paintings and portraits.
Alfred Robert Bader, CBE was a Canadian chemist, businessman, philanthropist, and collector of fine art. He was considered by the Chemical & Engineering News poll of 1998 to be one of the "Top 75 Distinguished Contributors to the Chemical Enterprise" during C&EN's 75-year history.
Kim Ondaatje is a Canadian painter, photographer, and documentary filmmaker.
Sarindar Dhaliwal is a Canadian multi-media artist, based in Toronto.
Isabel McLaughlin, was a Modernist Canadian painter, patron and philanthropist. She specialized in landscapes and still life and had a strong interest in design.
Barbara Anne Astman is a Canadian artist who has recruited instant camera technology, colour xerography, and digital scanners to explore her inner thoughts.
Portrait of a Man with Arms Akimbo, formerly known as Portrait of a Foreign Admiral or Portrait of a Dutch Admiral, is an oil painting portrait by Rembrandt signed and dated 1658. It is now in the collection of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and measures 107.4 cm by 87.0 cm.
Mary Augusta Hiester Reid was an American-born Canadian painter and teacher. She was best known as a painter of floral still lifes, some of them called "devastatingly expressive" by a contemporary author, and by 1890 she was thought to be the most important flower painter in Canada. She also painted domesticated landscapes, night scenes, and, less frequently, studio interiors and figure studies. Her work as a painter is related in a broad sense to Tonalism and Aestheticism or "art for art's sake".
André Charles Biéler was a Swiss-born Canadian painter and teacher. His work was modernist, at first with strong emphasis on line, later with more interest in light and colour. He is known for his genre pictures of life in rural Quebec. He was the first president of the Federation of Canadian Artists (1942–1944), and was instrumental in the foundation of the Canada Council and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ontario.
Diana Thorneycroft is a Canadian artist based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, whose work has exhibited nationally and internationally. She works primarily in photography, drawing, and sculpture/installation and makes photographs of staged dioramas to explore sexuality and national identity, and even, national icons such as the Group of Seven. Her work blurs the lines between gendered bodies by employing phalluses. She is also an educator: she worked as a sessional instructor at the University of Manitoba's School of Art for 25 years.
Elizabeth Harrison née Tatchell (1907-2001), was a British artist, educator and writer who spent a large part of her career in Canada.
Milly Ristvedt, also known as Milly Ristvedt-Handerek, is a Canadian abstract painter. Ristvedt lives and paints in Ontario, where she is represented by the Oeno Gallery. A monograph covering a ten-year retrospective of her work, Milly Ristvedt-Handerek: Paintings of a Decade, was published by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in 1979. In 2017, a second monograph was published by Oeno Gallery which included a survey of paintings from 1964 through to 2016, Milly Ristvedt, Colour and Meaning : an incomplete palette.
Jan Allen is a Canadian curator, writer, visual artist, and assistant professor in the Department of Art History and Art Conservation, and the Cultural Studies Program, at Queen's University, in Kingston, Ontario.
Brent Roe is an artist who uses words and sentence fragments in his paintings to challenge aesthetic and philosophical ideas.
Latcholassie Akesuk (1919–2000) was an Inuk sculptor.
Lynn Donoghue was a painter, known for her portraits.
Barbara Caruso (1937–2009) was an abstract painter.
Michael Belmore is a Canadian sculptor of Anishinaabe descent who works primarily in resistant stone, copper and other metals. His works are in public collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, National Museum of the American Indian – Smithsonian Museum, and the Art Gallery of Ontario, and he has held exhibitions in both nations.
Alicia Boutilier has been the Curator of Canadian Historical Art at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre since 2008 and in addition, was appointed Chief Curator in 2017. In 2020, she served as the Interim Director at the gallery and received a special recognition award from Queen's University at Kingston for her work as a team leader, adapting to the new realities caused by Covid. She is a Canadian art historian with wide-ranging concerns, among them women artists, the building of collections, and the combination of art with craft.
Roland Poulin is a Canadian contemporary sculptor whose work is characterized by its horizontality and weightiness. He has lived in Sainte-Angèle-de-Monnoir, Quebec, since 1986.
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