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12 - Urban Transportation 26.10.2022 2:00

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...

13 - NightSounds 26.10.2022 2:00

Sacrifice 04.10.2022 2:37

Sacrifice 1989 acrylic on canvas Gift of The Estate of Denyse Thomasos, through the American Friends of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Inc., 2022 2022/9 Audio description of the work This work is a figurative painting in a portrait orientation and is about the size of a queen size mattress at 6 and a half feet or 2 meters tall by 5 and a half feet or 1.7 meters wide. It depicts a black horse suspende...

Untitled (Kingdom Come) 04.10.2022 3:20

Untitled (Kingdom Come) 2011 acrylic on paper Collection of Dr. Carlyle Farrell Audio description of the work This room contains 7 colourful fast sketches and a table displaying photos and painting materials including shoes. The painted sketches are all in landscape orientation, two and a half feet or three quarters of a meter high by three and a half feet or just over one meter wide and focus on...

Arc 04.10.2022 2:56

Arc 2009 acrylic on canvas Purchase, with funds from the Women's Art Initiative, 2022 2021/356 Audio description of the work Hung with its lower edge at bench height, This monumental painting is the only work on this wall. It is 11 feet or almost three and a half meters tall and 20 feet or 6 meters wide. It is an abstract painting in a landscape orientation. This vigorous canvas uses a kaleidoscop...

Sketchbooks and Notebooks 04.10.2022 3:21

Sketchbooks and notebooks 2000s Courtesy of the Estate of Denyse Thomasos Audio description of the work Eight open notebooks make up this table display. They range in size from a pocket notebook to slightly larger than letter paper size. In the middle of the glass encased table is a book open to a 4 colour sketch of structures. At the centre of the sketch is a low green circular structure that res...

Rally 04.10.2022 2:33

Rally 1994 acrylic on canvas Courtesy of the Estate of Denyse Thomasos and Olga Korper Gallery Audio description of the work. This monumental work is an abstract painting in landscape orientation. It is 9 feet or almost 3 meters tall by 14 feet or around 4 meters wide. This painting is composed of tight stacks of similar horizontal brush strokes in multiple vivid colours. There are 22 stacks from...

Dos Amigos (Slave Boat) 04.10.2022 2:16

Dos Amigos (Slave Boat) 1993 acrylic on canvas Collection of Cadillac Fairview Audio description of the work This work is an abstract painting in a landscape orientation. It is 9 feet or almost 3 meters tall by 14 feet or around 4 meters wide. Taking up the majority of the canvas is an architectural structure shaped like a capsule which is broken open. It is composed of black and white cross hatch...

Babylon 04.10.2022 3:46

Babylon 2005 acrylic on canvas The Donovan Collection, University of St. Michael’s College This massive wallwork is an abstract painting. With it’s bottom edge at bench height, the work is hung in landscape orientation. It is 11 feet or three point three meters tall by 20 feet or six meters wide. The artist creates a spatially complex scene with brushstrokes and rollers. The upper part of the land...

Faith and Fortune - 09 Gaspar de Guzmán, Count Duke of Olivares 16.08.2022 2:37

Faith and Fortune - 09 Gaspar de Guzmán, Count Duke of Olivares by Art Gallery of Ontario

04 Head of St Paul and Head of St John, Luisa Roldán 02.06.2022 3:33

04 Head of St Paul and Head of St John, Luisa Roldán by Art Gallery of Ontario

01 Saint Jerome, El Greco 02.06.2022 3:50

01 Saint Jerome, El Greco by Art Gallery of Ontario

05 Majayjay to Magdalena, Unknown Photographer 02.06.2022 3:20

05 Majayjay to Magdalena, Unknown Photographer by Art Gallery of Ontario

02 St Michael the Archangel, anonymous Ecuadorian sculptor 01.06.2022 2:35

02 St Michael the Archangel, anonymous Ecuadorian sculptor by Art Gallery of Ontario

03 Batea, Peribán 01.06.2022 3:37

03 Batea, Peribán by Art Gallery of Ontario

Faith and Fortune - 10 Bucaros 01.06.2022 2:17