The Making of a Museum: Volume 26

by Judith Nasby

Judith Nasby, founding director and curator of the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, animates the story of the gallery from its humble beginnings in the hallways of a university campus in 1916 to its latest incarnation as the internationally recognized Art Gallery of Guelph.The book is beautifully illustrated with eighty images of artworks in the permanent collection, beginning with the gallery's first acquisition, Tom Thomson's 1917 masterpiece The Drive,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0228006201
• ISBN13: 9780228006206
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 216 Pages