Posts tagged “volunteer committee”

Connections and Collections: Buying Trends 2: Taking a Chance (or Not) on Abstract Art

Gallery Guide Susan Morrison continues her multipart series on the contributions of the AGO’s Women’s / Volunteer Committees to the gallery’s collections.  This week: The Women’s Committee shifts its acquisition focus. Attached to the minutes of the Oct 27,1952 meeting of the Women’s Committee is a fascinating six-page report from the chair of the Purchasing […]

Connections and Collections: Buying Trends Pt 1: All Things British

Gallery Guide Susan Morrison continues her multipart series on the contributions of the AGO’s Women’s / Volunteer Committees to the gallery’s collections.  This week: The Women’s Committee makes its first acquisitions. By 1949 the Women’s Committee (WC) had raised more than $3500 for the express purpose of purchasing art to augment the Art Gallery of […]

Connections and Collections: Foundations

Gallery Guide Susan Morrison continues her multipart series on the contributions of the AGO’s Women’s / Volunteer Committees to the gallery’s collections.  This week: The Women’s Committee is formed. Those of us who participate in Volunteer activities at the AGO would have a hard time recognizing ourselves in both the original group and mandate of […]

Connections and Collections – Introduction

Did you know it’s been 73 years since the first volunteer committee was formed at the AGO?  Gallery Guide Susan Morrison has delved into the archives –  Follow her new multi-part series on the contributions of the AGO’s Women’s / Volunteer Committees to the gallery’s collections.  This week: how her project got started. When the […]