Series LA.SC016.S4 - Mary Hiester Reid photographs

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LA.SC016.S4

Title

Mary Hiester Reid photographs

Date(s)

  • [189-?]–1922 (Creation)

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90 photographs : b&w prints

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Name of creator

(ca.1888-1977)

Biographical history

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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Scope and content

Series comprises a photo of Canadian painter Mary Hiester Reid (Reading, Pa. 1854–1921 Toronto), with installation shots of the 1922 memorial exhibition of her paintings at the Art Gallery of Toronto, and a photo of an oil portrait of her by her husband George Agnew Reid.

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No further accruals at this time

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Open

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  • English

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Note

The artist was the subject of an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2001 entitled Quiet Harmony: the Art of Mary Hiester Reid.

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Edward P. Taylor Library and Archives, Art Gallery of Ontario

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Dates of creation revision deletion

Originally Prepared in 2003

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  • English

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