02/11/2015 00:00:00 A Story of Canadian Art: As Told by the Hart House Collection Downtown Free

City of Toronto All Events http://ift.tt/163UPGm "A Story of Canadian Art" features forty-one works drawn from the celebrated Hart House Collection of Canadian art. The majority of works in the exhibition feature classic images of the Canadian landscape and were acquired between 1921 and 1950 by the Hart House Art Committee, a group comprised of students, artists, faculty, and staff at the University of Toronto. Showcasing paintings by renowned artists such as Emily Carr, Lawren Harris, Prudence Heward, A.Y. Jackson, David Milne, Lilias Torrance Newton, and Tom Thomson, A Story of Canadian Art at UTAC will be the first opportunity since 1987 for the University of Toronto community to view a major selection of the early 20th century collection.