Gordon Conn (ca.1888-1977) was an art collector and supporter of visual art in Toronto. He studied to be a musician and worked as a painter in his youth. Although he did not pursue a career as an artist, he maintained connections with many artists. He was a friend of the painter Kenneth Forbes (1892-1980) who painted Conn’s portrait in 1935. Together with Forbes, Gordon Conn founded the Ontario Institute of Painters devoted to the display of painting based on what Forbes called “traditional” art values. Conn turned over his studio in Wychwood Park in Toronto—The Little Gallery—to a series of one-man shows of its members. Near the end of his life, he donated paintings by artists represented in this collection to public art galleries in Ontario.
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Edward P. Taylor Library and Archives, Art Gallery of Ontario
Series consists of photographs of American Canadian painter Farquhar McGillivray Knowles (Syracuse, N.Y 1859–1932 Toronto) and his paintings.
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File contains photo portraits of the artist, views of his studio and photos of his paintings.
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