Art Gallery of Hamilton
Art Gallery of Hamilton from King St. W.
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| Location | Hamilton, Ontario |
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| Coordinates | 43°15′27″N 79°52′20″W / 43.2575°N 79.872222°WCoordinates: 43°15′27″N 79°52′20″W / 43.2575°N 79.872222°W |
| Type | Art museum |
Art Gallery of Hamilton, is located in the heart of downtown Hamilton, Ontario on King Street West. One of the oldest public art galleries in Canada and the third largest with a collection of over 10,000 works of art seeing close to 290,000 visitors a year.
Today, the William Blair Bruce memorial donation is displayed in a dramatic salon-style hanging in what is the Art Gallery of Hamilton’s third home.
Freda Farrell Waldon was one of the founding members of the Women's Committee of the Gallery.
From 1914 until 1953, the Gallery’s first home was the second floor of the Hamilton Public Library building located on Main Street West near James Street.
In 1947, the Gallery was a founding member of the Southern Ontario Gallery Group, now the Ontario Association of Art Galleries.
In December 1953, a new purpose-built gallery was opened at Forsyth Avenue and Main Street in west Hamilton. A little over a decade later, McMaster University unveiled plans to expropriate the lands on which the Gallery was built, halting plans to expand the Gallery in this location.
In 1977, the Gallery opened in its present location in the heart of the city as part of a downtown redevelopment project.
In 2005, a renovated Gallery reopened, with new gold-coloured steel cladding protecting the building, a glass-enclosed front entrance on King Street, a new multi-purpose pavilion, and larger and renovated exhibition spaces.
The AGH primary collection is based on Canadian historical, Canadian contemporary and European historical art.
The collection of historical Canadian art was developed through the meticulous promotion of local, regional and national artists over the Gallery's 100-year history.
The European collection spans Baroque through Post-Impressionist Art, with particular emphasis on the French, British and Italian schools.
The Art Gallery of Hamilton’s collection of modern Canadian art is one of the strongest in the country, due, in no small part to the vision and efforts of Thomas Reid (T.R.) MacDonald (1908–1978), the Gallery’s first full-time director and curator.
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