Photos above: The Art Gallery of Ontario (left and right); Henry Moore Sculpture Centre (center) 

Join us for the traditional Welcome Reception at the lovely Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), the eighth largest art museum in North America.  The AGO is proud to celebrate its centennial year until September 2002.  Its collection comprises more than 25,000 works representing 1,000 years of extraordinary European, Canadian, modern, Inuit, and contemporary art.  

AGO is conveniently located just south of the University of Ontario campus, about a 10-15 minute walk from either the university or the Delta Chelsea hotel.  No group transportation is planned, so you are encouraged to walk or take public transportation or a taxi.

Permanent collections at AGO include the Henry Moore Sculpture Centre, which originally opened in 1974 and now totals more than 900 sculptures and works on paper by this British sculptor.  Treasures of a Collector contains more than 350 objects from one of the world's finest collections of early European decorative art treasures, ranging in date from the Middle Ages to the 18th century.  The entire collection comprises some of the best-preserved examples of medieval art in ceramics, metalwork, enamel, gold, silver, ivory and boxwood. And Micah Lexier offers a work of art in the form of a quantity of coins equal to the number of months of the statistical life expectancy for a child born January 6, 1995.  

"Celebrating the Centennial" exhibitions will include Recent Acquisitions of European Prints and Drawings, as well as David Blackwood’s Fire Down on the Labrador. In 2000, the AGO received a major gift of 242 prints by the Canadian artist, David Blackwood. This focused exhibition includes working proofs, drawings and the original plate for Blackwood’s best known plate, Fire Down on the Labrador (1980). 

Visit the Art Gallery of Ontario online at http://www.ago.net

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