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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…
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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 dres…
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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…
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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 li…
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Green Chair Leonard Cohen Green Chair2007Inkjet printAudio description of the workThis 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…
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My Mother’s Last Hand from Untitled (Watercolour Notebook)1980–1985notebook with 13 watercoloursAudio description of the workThis 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 …
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Still Life1976–1980ink and crayon on paperAudio description of the workDrawn 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 eq…
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3 Desk in Room 1219 and Cohen on Guns
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Desk in Room 12191968notebook page with Polaroid Type 20 instant printsSet 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 l…
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2 Portrait of Georgianna (Anne) Sherman and Leonard Cohen
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Portrait of Georgianna (Anne) Sherman and Leonard Cohenaround 1958gelatin silver printAudio description of the workDisplayed 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 …
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The Spice Box of Eartharound 1960ink on cardboardLeonard Cohen archives, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of TorontoAudio description of the workThis 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 drawin…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Sacrifice 1989acrylic on canvasGift of The Estate of Denyse Thomasos, through the American Friends of the Art Galleryof Ontario, Inc., 20222022/9Audio description of the workThis 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 me…
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Untitled (Kingdom Come) 2011acrylic on paperCollection 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 hal…
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Arc2009acrylic on canvasPurchase, with funds from the Women's Art Initiative, 20222021/356Audio description of the workHung 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 orientat…
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Sketchbooks and notebooks2000sCourtesy of the Estate of Denyse ThomasosAudio description of the workEight 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 ske…
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Rally1994acrylic on canvasCourtesy of the Estate of Denyse Thomasos and Olga Korper GalleryAudio 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 multip…
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Dos Amigos (Slave Boat)1993acrylic on canvasCollection of Cadillac FairviewAudio description of the workThis 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. I…
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Babylon 2005acrylic on canvasThe Donovan Collection, University of St. Michael’s CollegeThis 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 brush…
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Faith and Fortune - 09 Gaspar de Guzmán, Count Duke of Olivares
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Faith and Fortune - 09 Gaspar de Guzmán, Count Duke of Olivares by Art Gallery of OntarioAv Art Gallery of Ontario
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04 Head of St Paul and Head of St John, Luisa Roldán
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04 Head of St Paul and Head of St John, Luisa Roldán by Art Gallery of OntarioAv Art Gallery of Ontario
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01 Saint Jerome, El Greco by Art Gallery of OntarioAv Art Gallery of Ontario
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05 Majayjay to Magdalena, Unknown Photographer
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05 Majayjay to Magdalena, Unknown Photographer by Art Gallery of OntarioAv Art Gallery of Ontario
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02 St Michael the Archangel, anonymous Ecuadorian sculptor
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02 St Michael the Archangel, anonymous Ecuadorian sculptor by Art Gallery of OntarioAv Art Gallery of Ontario
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03 Batea, Peribán by Art Gallery of OntarioAv Art Gallery of Ontario
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The audio guide accompanies the exhibition Faith and Fortune: Art Across the Global Spanish Empire on at the Art Gallery of Ontario starting June 2022Av Art Gallery of Ontario
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Faith and Fortune - 14 The Philippines
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Faith and Fortune - 13 Daguerreotypes from the Philippines
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Faith and Fortune - 12 Maria Luisa de Orléans, Queen of Spain, Lying in State
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Faith and Fortune - 11 El Costeño/ The Young Man from the Coast
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Faith and Fortune - 08 Mantón de Manila
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Faith and Fortune - 07 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
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Faith and Fortune - 05 Map of Tequaltiche
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The audio guide accompanies the exhibition Faith and Fortune: Art Across the Global Spanish Empire on at the Art Gallery of Ontario starting June 2022Av Art Gallery of Ontario
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