Toronto Guide
Toronto
The Art Gallery of Ontario
Price: $5, plus extra for special exhibitions
Address: St Patrick subway
Telephone: 416/979-6648
Website: www.ago.net
The superb AGO, the Art Gallery of Ontario, just west of University Avenue along Dundas Street W, is celebrated for its wide-ranging collection of foreign and domestic art and its excellent temporary exhibitions. Highlights include Canadian nineteenth-century paintings and pieces from the distinctive "Group of Seven", who approached Canadian landscapes with a naturalism, romanticism and frontier spirit that created a new autonomy for Canadian art. Inuit art is well-represented, with an exceptional collection of soapstone sculpture, and the AGO possesses a marvellous sample of European fine and applied art, including European sculptures by the likes of Barbara Hepworth. The contemporary art showcases work by European, British and American artists, including Warhol, Rothko and Claes Oldenburg. The AGO also possesses the world's largest collection of Henry Moore (1898–1986) plaster casts and a few bronzes.