RiverBrink Art Museum
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| Location | 116 Queenston St, Queenston, Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario, Canada |
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| Coordinates | 43°10′13″N 79°03′25″W / 43.1703°N 79.0570°W |
| Type | Art museum |
| Director | David Aurandt |
| Website | riverbrink.org |
RiverBrink Art Museum is located on the Niagara Parkway in the historic village of Queenston, Niagara-on-the-Lake. Open to the public since 1983, the museum is home to a unique collection of over 1,400 works by Canadian and international artists.
Along with paintings, prints, works, on paper, and sculpture, the museum’s collection includes decorative art, archival material, and rare books, assembled by Samuel E. Weir. An Ontario-based lawyer and avid art collector throughout his lifetime, Weir acquired the majority of the works in the museum, which continues to collect through donations and purchases. The location of RiverBrink had a profound influence on the art patron, as there are many depictions of Niagara Falls and the Niagara peninsula in the collection. In the RiverBrink collection are paintings by many of Canada’s most significant artists, including Tom Thomson, Homer Watson, Marc Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté, Cornelius Krieghoff, Emily Carr, and members of the Group of Seven. The collection also contains artwork by well-known British, French, and American artists, such as Augustus John, Mary Cassatt, Armand Guillaumin, Grant Wood, and Edgar Degas, among others. The museum has a large collection of decorative arts, including English and Québec silver, clocks, antique furniture, Indian medals, coins, rugs and ceramics. In addition, RiverBrink’s library and archives hold over 4,000 books, personal correspondence, maps, auction house records, and individual files of several hundred artists.
Exhibitions are organized from the permanent collection as well as loans from both public institutions and private collectors. To search the RiverBrink collection, visit the Canadian Heritage Information Network’s Artefacts Canada: Humanities database.
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