When: June 29-Oct. 27A two-year touring exhibit featuring iconic pieces from one of Canada’s most legendary private collections begins its final stop Tuesday at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, where it will remain on display until October.
Generations has been on the road since 2022, and arrives in Victoria following stops at galleries in St. John’s, N.L., Edmonton, Charlottetown, Halifax, and Quebec City. McNeil worked diligently in order to make the sixth and final stop on the tour happen, and given the substantial insurance and shipping costs required to bring the 120 pieces to Victoria, it can only be counted as a Herculean achievement on his behalf.
Generations was organized and curated by Sarah Milroy, executive director and chief curator of Toronto’s McMichael Canadian Art Collection, who chose 170 key pieces from the collection to be part of the nationwide tour. McNeil said 120 of those were designated for Victoria and will cover between 4,000 and 5,000 square feet of space inside the gallery, “which is a lot for us,” he said.
Generations is not about quantity, however. The quality is what matters above all else, McNeil said. The exhibit includes a trio by landscape painter Tom Thomson, an unofficial member of the Group of Seven, but each piece, painted a year or two before his death, is a legendary work of art unto itself. “These are big works from Tom Thomson,” McNeil said of Sunset, Canoe Lake , Winter, Canoe Lake , and Moonlight .
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