Canada Guide
Ontario
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Address: On the corner of University Avenue and Queen's Crescent
Opening time: Tues– Fri 10am–4.30pm, Sat & Sun 1–5pm
Price: $4
Website: www.aeac.ca
At Queen's University campus, whose various sturdy stone college buildings fan out in all directions, the place to aim for is the first-rate Agnes Etherington Art Centre. The gallery has an excellent reputation for its temporary exhibitions, so paintings are regularly rotated, but the first room (Room 1) usually kicks off in dramatic style with a vivid selection of Canadian Abstract paintings (1940–60), with French-speaking artists on one side and English-speaking artists on the other. Beyond, there is a strong showing for the Group of Seven, including a striking Evening Solitude by Lawren Harris and the carpet-like, rolling fields of Lismer's QuébecVillage, while Tom Thomson weighs in with his studied Autumn, AlgonquinPark. Other exhibits to look out for are the Inuit prints of Kenojuak and Pitseolak – two of the best-known Inuit artists of modern times – as well as heritage quilts from eastern Ontario, which date back to the 1820s.