Art Gallery of Ontario

KAWS in Galleria Italia Sculpture in Wood KAWS born Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, 1974 These sculptures are situated in Galleria Italia, a city-block-long 4 meter or 14 foot wide east/west thoroughfare in the Gallery building. There is a two storey window wall on the north side and warm brown coloured wood paneling on the south. Although they are placed without barriers the works are not...

MAN’S BEST FRIEND 2014 acrylic on paper This work is a massive gridded rectangle of 50 black and white line drawings. The width of the work is about 3 king size mattresses and it is almost one and a half mattresses high nearly reaching the Gallery ceiling. Each framed drawing is 22 inches tall and 18 inches wide. The grid is composed of two dimensional line drawn characters from Peanuts which rese...

GOOD INTENTIONS 2015 bronze and paint Collection of the Madison Group, Courtesy Corkin Gallery GOOD INTENTIONS is a sculpture, presenting two identical figures which stand closely side by side on a low riser against the wall. The one on the right stands at 7 feet tall. The one on the left is smaller reaching the right figure’s waist and hides, childlike, behind it’s leg. They are various shades of...

Wood Green and Broadstairs, 1903, from Gower Sketchbook, graphite and watercolour on wove paper, Art Gallery of Ontario, Gift of Jane and John McNicoll, 2002, 2002/9441. Displayed on a table and under Plexiglas, this is one of 8 sketchbooks at the centre of the last room in the exhibition. This room displays the two artists' works in their own right. A series of five colour prints on paper by Cass...

Portrait of Madame J (Young Woman in Black), 1883, oil on canvas, Collection of the Maryland State Archives, MSA SC 4680-10-0010. This work is one of 5 spotlit paintings in this section of the exhibition which has 5 angled walls, giving each work its own wall. Here, each of three works by McNicoll and two by Cassatt present us with an elegantly dressed woman posed indoors. In three paintings the w...

Francoise in Green, Sewing, 1908–1909, oil on Canvas, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama, Gift of the Ida Belle Young Art Acquisition Fund, 2009.0006. Nearby other works in which young working-class children are dressed and posed as upper-class children, this painting captures a fair-skinned white girl of about 10 seated, opulently dressed, and engaged with her sewing pastime. Thi...

The Open Door, around 1913, oil on canvas, Lent by Samuel & Esther Sarick. First, a moment to discuss the painting techniques which are hallmarks of these impressionist works that will be described in this exhibition. Impressionism is an art movement that was first named in France in the 1870s. Artists took their subject matter from contemporary life, and instead of using a highly realistic style...

The Moose Story by Art Gallery of Ontario

Green Chair Leonard Cohen Green Chair 2007 Inkjet print Audio description of the work This framed image in portrait orientation is an enlarged print of a watercolor painting of a green armchair. It is 30 inches by 20 inches or 76 by 50 cm. Originally painted on a sheet of lined notebook paper in the watercolour notebook just steps away, the page’s lines are still visible, especially on the borders...

My Mother’s Last Hand from Untitled (Watercolour Notebook) 1980–1985 notebook with 13 watercolours Audio description of the work This is a description of a watercolour painting in a notebook which is slightly larger than letter paper size. The notebook is displayed under a plexiglass case at standing height eye level and is open to this watercolour of the palm of a left hand, made as a part of a d...

Still Life 1976–1980 ink and crayon on paper Audio description of the work Drawn on a leaf of slightly larger than letter sized white paper is a dynamic arrangement of everyday objects drawn in blueish-metallic hues. In this work Cohen has drawn a canister of paint thinner, a candle stick, a salt shaker and a can of root beer and arranged them in an equally spaced zigzag on the page, two in the ba...

Desk in Room 1219 1968 notebook page with Polaroid Type 20 instant prints Set against a deep blue wall a square plexiglass case displays two wall mounted items from the collection of Cohen’s personal journals displayed in this area of the exhibition labeled “Tennessee 1968”. On the left, at standing-height eye level, is a page from a tall and narrow lined notebook with five palm sized black and wh...

Portrait of Georgianna (Anne) Sherman and Leonard Cohen around 1958 gelatin silver print Audio description of the work Displayed against a black backdrop, this palm sized black and white photo is in a keepsake tin frame with a shiny metallic relief border. This photobooth photo depicts a young Leonard Cohen with his then love interest Anne. The couple in their 20’s take up the bottom two thirds of...

The Spice Box of Earth around 1960 ink on cardboard Leonard Cohen archives, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto Audio description of the work This work is a drawing on a piece of sand brown cardboard slightly smaller than letter paper size. The cardboard is the everyday corrugated sort that would make up a cardboard box and the drawing is presumed to be made by a black ball poin...

We’re all ears! Are you? As part of the Multisensory Art Cart, we invite you to find an artwork that inspires you to think about sound. You can use this curated audio playlist to accompany your journey through the AGO! Spend a few moments listening to the sounds in the playlist as you spend time with the artwork and consider: Do the sounds change the artwork? How does the audio affect your experie...

We’re all ears! Are you? As part of the Multisensory Art Cart, we invite you to find an artwork that inspires you to think about sound. You can use this curated audio playlist to accompany your journey through the AGO! Spend a few moments listening to the sounds in the playlist as you spend time with the artwork and consider: Do the sounds change the artwork? How does the audio affect your experie...

We’re all ears! Are you? As part of the Multisensory Art Cart, we invite you to find an artwork that inspires you to think about sound. You can use this curated audio playlist to accompany your journey through the AGO! Spend a few moments listening to the sounds in the playlist as you spend time with the artwork and consider: Do the sounds change the artwork? How does the audio affect your experie...

We’re all ears! Are you? As part of the Multisensory Art Cart, we invite you to find an artwork that inspires you to think about sound. You can use this curated audio playlist to accompany your journey through the AGO! Spend a few moments listening to the sounds in the playlist as you spend time with the artwork and consider: Do the sounds change the artwork? How does the audio affect your experie...

We’re all ears! Are you? As part of the Multisensory Art Cart, we invite you to find an artwork that inspires you to think about sound. You can use this curated audio playlist to accompany your journey through the AGO! Spend a few moments listening to the sounds in the playlist as you spend time with the artwork and consider: Do the sounds change the artwork? How does the audio affect your experie...

We’re all ears! Are you? As part of the Multisensory Art Cart, we invite you to find an artwork that inspires you to think about sound. You can use this curated audio playlist to accompany your journey through the AGO! Spend a few moments listening to the sounds in the playlist as you spend time with the artwork and consider: Do the sounds change the artwork? How does the audio affect your experie...

We’re all ears! Are you? As part of the Multisensory Art Cart, we invite you to find an artwork that inspires you to think about sound. You can use this curated audio playlist to accompany your journey through the AGO! Spend a few moments listening to the sounds in the playlist as you spend time with the artwork and consider: Do the sounds change the artwork? How does the audio affect your experie...

We’re all ears! Are you? As part of the Multisensory Art Cart, we invite you to find an artwork that inspires you to think about sound. You can use this curated audio playlist to accompany your journey through the AGO! Spend a few moments listening to the sounds in the playlist as you spend time with the artwork and consider: Do the sounds change the artwork? How does the audio affect your experie...

We’re all ears! Are you? As part of the Multisensory Art Cart, we invite you to find an artwork that inspires you to think about sound. You can use this curated audio playlist to accompany your journey through the AGO! Spend a few moments listening to the sounds in the playlist as you spend time with the artwork and consider: Do the sounds change the artwork? How does the audio affect your experie...

We’re all ears! Are you? As part of the Multisensory Art Cart, we invite you to find an artwork that inspires you to think about sound. You can use this curated audio playlist to accompany your journey through the AGO! Spend a few moments listening to the sounds in the playlist as you spend time with the artwork and consider: Do the sounds change the artwork? How does the audio affect your experie...

We’re all ears! Are you? As part of the Multisensory Art Cart, we invite you to find an artwork that inspires you to think about sound. You can use this curated audio playlist to accompany your journey through the AGO! Spend a few moments listening to the sounds in the playlist as you spend time with the artwork and consider: Do the sounds change the artwork? How does the audio affect your experie...