Vancouver Art Gallery

If you are making a trip to the great Northwest this Summer (or anytime, really) I recommend a trip to the Vancouver Art Gallery in Canada. Founded in 1931, the Vancouver Art Gallery is the largest Canadian art museum west of Toronto. And, it is the fourth largest museum in Canada. The Vancouver Art Gallery occupies an important heritage building in the centre of downtown, a former 1910 provincial courthouse that was renovated in the 1980s by Canadian architect Arthur Erickson.

Lawren Harris Abstract No. 7 oil on canvas Vancouver Art Gallery Founders Fund

About

The Vancouver Art Gallery's collection of nearly 9,000 works of art represents the most comprehensive resource for visual culture in British Columbia. Established in 1931 with the founding of the Gallery, the collection grows by several hundred works every year. It is a principal repository of works produced in this region, as well as related works by other Canadian and international artists.

Works from the collection are in active use. They are presented in exhibitions at the Gallery and are loaned to other institutions locally, nationally and internationally. The collection is also used by researchers, scholars and students, as well as authors, publishers and other museums and galleries, who reproduce images in print and online publications.

The Vancouver Art Gallery collection contains outstanding examples of a century's worth of art produced in British Columbia, from 19th century mountain and coastal landscapes to recent photo-based artworks by renowned Vancouver artists. The Gallery owns the largest and most significant group of paintings and works on paper by the modernist landscape painter Emily Carr.

Select content courtesy Vancouver Art Gallery, www.vanartgallery.bc.ca.